Re: Infix Operators (Re: March 22/23 notes)

2011-03-25 Thread Claus Reinke
It strikes me as odd to see specific infix operators hardcoded in the language spec. .. I'd be interested to learn whether user-defined infix operators have been considered, to keep the language-level specification limited but general, while allowing late specification of details in library

Re: Infix Operators (Re: March 22/23 notes)

2011-03-25 Thread David Herman
Hi Claus, Interesting idea; I'd never considered lifting some of these good syntax ideas from Haskell before. One issue with the Haskell `...` syntax directly is conflict with the quasi-literals proposal, but we can think about alternatives offline (let's *not* get into a discussion of

Re: Infix Operators (Re: March 22/23 notes)

2011-03-25 Thread Claus Reinke
Hi Dave, Interesting idea; I'd never considered lifting some of these good syntax ideas from Haskell before. thanks. Yes, I've often noticed that people equate Haskell language design with its advanced type system ideas, while the much more stable ideas (such as reducing syntactic noise) in