[Haskell-cafe] [extension]syntactic sugar for maps

[Răzvan Rotaru]

Hi,

I am terribly missing some syntactic sugar for maps (associative data
structures) in Haskell. I find myself using them more than any other data
structure, and I think there is no big deal in adding some sugar for this
to the language. I could not find out whether such an extension is beeing
discussed. If not, I would like to propose and extension. Any help and
suggestions are very welcome here. Thanks.

Also related to the topic:

1/ Is there a list of proposals for extensions to Haskell that has
currently been accepted in the new standard? I have not found one on
Haskell' (
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/query?status=newstatus=assignedstatus=reopenedgroup=state),
but it looks outdated. No mentions to the new standard!

2/ I have seen somewhere a statement that a new language standard will be
published yearly. Didn't happen until now. Is there even a new standard on
the way?

Cheers,
Răzvan
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] [extension]syntactic sugar for maps

[Răzvan Rotaru]

Sorry, I forgot to explain (probably because I'm too used to it). I am
referring to a syntax for easy creation of maps. Something equivalent to
lists:

to build a list: [ 1, 2, 3]
to build a map; { 1, one, 2, two, 3, three}

Without it I am always forced to use fromList.

Răzvan



On 27 March 2013 21:48, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.comwrote:

 On 28 March 2013 06:30, Răzvan Rotaru razvan.rot...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi,
 
  I am terribly missing some syntactic sugar for maps (associative data
  structures) in Haskell. I find myself using them more than any other data
  structure, and I think there is no big deal in adding some sugar for
 this to
  the language. I could not find out whether such an extension is beeing
  discussed. If not, I would like to propose and extension. Any help and
  suggestions are very welcome here. Thanks.

 What kind of syntactic sugar are you wanting?

 
  Also related to the topic:
 
  1/ Is there a list of proposals for extensions to Haskell that has
 currently
  been accepted in the new standard? I have not found one on Haskell'
  (
 http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/query?status=newstatus=assignedstatus=reopenedgroup=state
 ),
  but it looks outdated. No mentions to the new standard!
 
  2/ I have seen somewhere a statement that a new language standard will be
  published yearly. Didn't happen until now. Is there even a new standard
 on
  the way?
 
  Cheers,
  Răzvan
 
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