On 19/01/2012, Joachim Breitner <m...@joachim-breitner.de> wrote: > (I have no good idea, but here is at least one: A dot '.' as the first > character indicates a type variable; compared to a ':' this is a > non-capitalized character).
So that all symbols that start in dot are variables, and all others are types/constructors? > Also, is there maybe another way of distinguishing constructors and > variables, besides capitalization, that works equally well for operators > and non-operators? That could also help if a user would like to use > unicode characters in the name of a constructor that are letters but > don’t have a upper or titlecase variant. But then, this has probably > been given thought a long time ago, without a better solution than > capitalization resp. leading ':'. Sometimes I thought to use "∀" to quantify over type variables, as over term variables, at least as an option. _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
