[transferring over to the haskell list ...]

        (After being surprised by a type error from writing "ppInt -42"...)
        I allegedly wrote:
   
        I reckon -42 should be a lexeme.  If someone wants the bizarre business
        above, they can write -(42).
   
   Brian Boutel responded (in part...):
   
   But then x-1 will not be parsed as a subtraction, and it would be
   necessary to write x- 1. I think this cure is worse than the disease.

Not being a crypto-Fortran hacker, I would always write "x - 1" anyway
1/2 :-)  People who don't put spaces in their programs deserve what
they get.

Yours for longer longest lexemes,

Will Partain

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