> >>A... should be split into "A.." and "." > >I found a compromise: let's make it a lexing error! :-) > At least that agrees with what some Haskell compilers implement. No > current Haskell compiler/interpreter agrees with what the report seems > to say, that is that "A..." should be lexed as the two tokens "A.." and > ".", and similarly, "A.where" should be lexed as "A.wher" followed by "e".
Hi. I'm really new to Haskell, just learning it, and I must say I'm pretty overwhelmed by the large variety of constructs. (=>, <-, \ to name a few) But I'm just writing this to let you guys know (surely you know this already) that anyone from a C/C++/Java/Delphi background is going to completely misunderstand the meaning of A.anything in Haskell... it's completely nonintuitive to people with my background. I kinda like dot notation because it ties together the symbols visually, for instance "myrec.myfield" is more of a unit than "myrec myfield". It stays together better when surrounded by other code, and would result in fewer parenthesis necessary. Haskell to me seems to be a great language with a syntax problem, and a bad case of too many ways to do the same thing; thus every programmer does things their own way and it's difficult to grasp the language by looking at various programs, since they're all so very different. As a small example, there's 'let' vs. 'where'. Maybe a bit of pruning would be in order. That said, I still think it looks more promising than any other language I've looked at that actually is being actively used and maintained and has a decent installed base and good cross platform support. So I will learn it. I just wish the transition was easier and that it took less time to learn. ;) Sean _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
