2009/12/9 Richard O'Keefe <o...@cs.otago.ac.nz>: > > On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:54 PM, Maciej Piechotka wrote: >> >> You mean to parse a - b differently then a-b? You don't have the problem >> in LISP as AFAIR you use (- a b) but in Haskell it would be a problem. > > It's a problem that COBOL solved a long time ago: > COMPUTE INCREASED-DEBT = TOTAL-EXPENSES - AFTER-TAX-INCOME. > Haskell already has this problem with ".", where we generally need > to put spaces around "." with the meaning "composition" and not > put spaces around other uses. > > This is something someone could easily try out by writing a trivial > preprocessor to convert hyphens with letters on each side to > underscores. See how it works. > > Given the amazinglyUglyAndUnreadably baStudlyCaps namingStyle that > went into Haskell forNoApparentReasonThatIHaveEverHeardOf, it might > be nice to have a wee preprocessor that turned > <lower case letter one> _ <lower case letter two> > into <lower case letter one> <Upper case letter two> > > so that I could write take_while and Haskell could see takeWhile. > [I'm writing this in MacOS X Mail. "takeWhile" is underlined in > red as a spelling mistake, "take_while" is not. Maybe they know > something...] > > Here is such a preprocessor. This is meant for people to try out. > I don't claim that it's perfect, it's just a quick hack. >
Is there any flag I can pass to e.g. GHC to make it use the preprocessor automagically or do I write my own little hack to apply the preprocessor? -- Deniz Dogan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe