Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
LA> In my opinion all the special syntactic sugar for lists should go
LA> away.  I don't think lists are special enough to motivate it.

i have proposal (not for Haskell', of course) of using ":" and "[]"
syntax for general notion of traversable collections:

Minor point, perhaps, but I should mention that : is not special syntax -- it is a perfectly valid infix constructor. [] and all its variants, however, are special syntax.

  -Paul
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