Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-12 Thread Cale Gibbard
Personally I don't see why everyone appears to prefer the syntax with \ in it over just the obvious case section syntax which was originally proposed. case of { ... } looks much better to me than \case of { ... } and the former makes sense to me as a simple extension of operator sections to ano

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-12 Thread Cale Gibbard
o extend that pattern in this case. On 12 July 2012 15:03, Daniel Trstenjak wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:38:56PM -0400, Cale Gibbard wrote: >> Personally I don't see why everyone appears to prefer the syntax with >> \ in it over just the obvious case section syntax whi

Re: Type operators in GHC

2012-09-14 Thread Cale Gibbard
There's a fair amount of code out there which uses (~>) as a type variable (we have ~10k lines of heavy arrow code at iPwn). It would be *really* nice if that could be accommodated somehow. But the proposal you just gave at least would allow for a textual substitution, so not quite so bad as having