Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
Ketil Malde wrote:
[about A.b and A . b potentially meaning different things:]
Syntax that changes depending on spacing is my number
one gripe with the Haskell syntax
I've generally considered that one of the good ideas in most current
languages (it's not specific to Haskell). ISTR there was a Basic dialect
where
IFX=0THENX=X+1
and
IF X = 0 THEN X = X + 1
meant the same thing.
My point is that e.g. currently "foo? bar", "foo ?bar" and "foo ? bar"
have (at least two) different meanings. Hierarchical naming collides
with function composition (admittedly only rarely in practice).
Template haskell collides with list comprehensions.
Do you really think that is such a great idea?
-k
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