Hello Jon, Wednesday, October 25, 2006, 6:37:33 PM, you wrote:
> 0xffff_3729 makes perfect sense as hex and the "_" does a > nice job of separating the digits into readable groups. > 0xffff~~3729 looks similar, but doesn't mean the same thing > at all. > 0xffff~~0x3729 is ugly and probably less readable than the > unbroken form. and it's again not the same - ~~ operator multiplies by 1000, not 65536 :))) > No. A small alteration to the lexical syntax for the sake of > improved readability seems perfectly justifiable as long as > it doesn't make the lexical syntax /significantly/ more > complicated or harder to learn. believe it or not, but i once implemented this as ghc patch and send to SPJ, who suggested me to postpone such micro-changes until new Haskell standard will be discussed :) afair, it was about 3 lines patch :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
