Hi--I'm creating a family of methods for a class, and to prevent name clashes I've annotated the function names with º. The files are saved UTF-8, so the character is accepted.Method names of the form fº are handled fine. GHC consumes them quite happily. Where I'm having trouble is in operator
On Saturday 11 September 2010 03:12:11, Greg wrote:
If I read the Haskell Report correctly, operators are named by (symbol
{symbol | : }), where symbol is either an ascii symbol (including *) or
a unicode symbol (defined as any Unicode symbol or punctuation). I'm
pretty sure º is a unicode
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On 9/10/10 21:39 , Daniel Fischer wrote:
On Saturday 11 September 2010 03:12:11, Greg wrote:
a unicode symbol (defined as any Unicode symbol or punctuation). I'm
pretty sure º is a unicode symbol or punctuation.
Prelude Data.Char
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On 9/10/10 21:12 , Greg wrote:
unicode symbol (defined as any Unicode symbol or punctuation). I'm pretty
sure º is a unicode symbol or punctuation.
No, it's a raised lowercase o used by convention to indicate gender of
abbreviated ordinals. You
Oh cripe... Yet another reason not to use funny symbols-- even the developer can't tell them apart!Yeah, I wanted a degree sign, but if it's all that subtle then I should probably reconsider the whole idea.On the positive side, I know what ª is for now so today wasn't a complete waste.
