> Parting shot:  isAlphaNum vs. isAlphanum?  Haven't we been here before?
> Don't the committee have more amusing (and less pointless and gratuitously
> program-breaking) things to tinker with?  (I know, nothing to do with
> ghc, I'm just in a mood to 'give out'...)
Ah, but each new committee has to make a few gratuitous changes
to put their mark on the language.  And they should be such that
the user feels it.  This is not the only pointless thing we changed. ;-)

    -- Lennart

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