Soham Chowdhury wrote: > Apologies if this question's already been discussed here, but have there > been any discussions about switching the meanings of the : and :: > operators? The rationale here is, of course, that :: is (probably, beware > of anecdata) used a lot more than : is. > > Obviously this would have the effect of breaking essentially every module > ever written if it were done "automatically", but could there not be > something akin to what -XDataKinds did for the * kind?
Sorry, from a cost/benefit analysis point of view this doesn't look very promising at all. The costs are very obvious: * Implementation in GHC and ongoing maintenance. * The extra cognitive load put on every developer who has to work on code that has both forms. There are probably others, but as far as I am concerned the second alone far outweights any potential benefit. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
