Mauricio wrote:
Do you think 'read' (actually,
'readsPrec'?) could be made to also
read the international convention
(ie., read "1,5" would also work
besides read "1.5")? I'm happy to
finaly use a language where I can
use words of my language to name
variables, so I wonder if we could
also make that step.
The purpose of 'read' is to read haskell notation, not to read
locally-sensitive notation.
So the right question to ask is "should we change haskell's lexical
syntax to support locally-sensitive number notation".
IMO, the answer is no.
(1,3) would start to mean (13/10) and we'd need another notational rule
(whitespace around commas) for numeric tuples. Feels like a painful
special case to me.
Jules
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