> On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
>
> > I find it unfortunate that one can't (I guess) define custom unary
> > operators in Haskell.
Incidentally, the nhc98 compiler has always permitted the definition of
unary operators, as an extension to the language. (It was just more
convenient to create a general mechanism for unary/prefix operators,
than to code the special case for negative numbers.)
The definition syntax is rather like for infix decls:
infixl 6 +
prefix negate 6 - -- WARNING Not standard Haskell
The operator symbol (-) is bound to a function name (negate), and has a
precedence just like infix operators.
Regards,
Malcolm
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