Original-Via: uk.ac.nsf; Wed, 29 Jan 92 15:14:28 GMT
John Peterson writes:
I was planning to stand aside on syntax issues, but this is going too far!
Simon proposes:
the back-quote stuff in the lexical syntax,
and the paren-ifying in the ordinary syntax.
[...]
Me:
Oh no! Not more syntactic convolution!
I agree with John, only more so. I'd rather do without the proposed
1.2 gratuitous complexification, too. What was wrong w/ the good old
friendly *lexemes*...?
var `var`
+ (+)
It never occurred to me to confuse the lexeme (+) with the syntactic
whatsit (+ ...). Nor have I seen a Haskell program(mer) bitten by
this alleged shortcoming.
Can anyone provide an example of a *single real* Haskell program that
would benefit from the post-1.0 changes?
Will "Feeling Better, Too" Partain
