, 2003 4:28 PM
To: Haskell Mailing List
Subject: proposal for anonymous-sum syntax
Haskell has nice syntactic support for unnamed product types (tuples).
It is as though there were builtin several datatype definitions of the
form:
data (a,b) = (a,b)
data (a,b,c) = (a,b,c
Haskell has nice syntactic support for unnamed product types (tuples).
It is as though there were builtin several datatype definitions of the form:
data (a,b) = (a,b)
data (a,b,c) = (a,b,c)
data (a,b,c,d) = (a,b,c,d)
...
But for sum types, there is only one
G'day all.
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 04:28:27PM -0800, Richard Nathan Linger wrote:
What do people think about this?
Has anyone else ever wished they had such support for unnamed sums?
I sometimes wish that Haskell did _not_ have support for unnamed
product types. To be honest, how hard is it
