Libor Skarvada wrote:
>
> David Feuer writes:
> > I really don't like the fact that the unary "-" is special in Haskell.
> > I propose that along with infix operators, Haskell support prefix and
> > postfix operators. The negative function could be renamed to, randomly,
> > %-.
>
> Mixing prefi
>Alex Ferguson wrote:
>
> | Frank A. Christoph:
> | > I hope that Either will be renamed to (+), or at
> | > least deprecated in favor of (+).
> |
> | I'd basically agree with Frank here, though presumably for consistency
> | with Koen's (very reasonable) proposals, this would need to be the
> | s
Alex Ferguson wrote:
| Frank A. Christoph:
| > I hope that Either will be renamed to (+), or at
| > least deprecated in favor of (+).
|
| I'd basically agree with Frank here, though presumably for consistency
| with Koen's (very reasonable) proposals, this would need to be the
| symbol (:
Original-Via: uk.ac.nsf; Sat, 18 Jan 92 14:50:25 GMT
Backquotes with or without whitespace are both fine with me. Paul and I
did in fact discuss this, and when he made his decision, I think it was
a pretty close call.
--Joe
|I see from Joe's revised syntax that he proposes allowing
|
|
> So I propose:
> the back-quote stuff in the lexical syntax,
> and the paren-ifying in the ordinary syntax.
>
> Does anyone else have an opinion. I don't think there are any technical
> issues here; just stylistic.
>
> Simon
I agree with you, Simon. Errors from unmatched backquo
