Original-Via: uk.ac.nsf; Fri, 24 Jan 92 00:07:18 GMT
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If I wasn't such a wimp at this point I would have argued as John has;
his argument was exactly why Joe and I made the change. However, the
reality is that I have become a wimp (about syntax, anyway).
Original-Via: uk.ac.nsf; Thu, 23 Jan 92 22:28:37 GMT
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.
I've been looking at the syntax of LHSes with Brian Boutel.
These are essentially the same for both Haskell 1.1 and 1.2.
As stated in the reports, the syntax is very irregular, allowing
parentheses in some circumstances, but not in others. The result seems
quite arbitrary.
f = ...
