Re: Proposal: require spaces around the dot operator

2012-02-10 Thread Svein Ove Aas
+1 to the idea of requiring spaces around all operators. It's just good style -1 to using dot for record fields, however. That's too likely to confuse someone, especially if we end up having something like lenses baked into the language. (Please, please...) On Feb 10, 2012 7:19 PM, "Brandon Allber

Re: Proposal: require spaces around the dot operator

2012-02-10 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 04:37, Malcolm Wallace wrote: > I agree with John. There is no point in fiddling with the dots, until we > have real experience with a new records proposal (which can be implemented > entirely without using dot, at least initially). > I would claim this should have been

Re: Proposal: require spaces around the dot operator

2012-02-10 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 02/10/2012 06:09 AM, Gábor Lehel wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Isaac Dupree wrote: I support requiring spaces around the dot operator, *even if* we don't ever end up using it for anything else. +1. I would support requiring spaces around _all_ operators. I can't immediately thi

Re: Proposal: require spaces around the dot operator

2012-02-10 Thread Gábor Lehel
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Isaac Dupree wrote: > I support requiring spaces around the dot operator, *even if* we don't ever > end up using it for anything else. +1. I would support requiring spaces around _all_ operators. I can't immediately think of any operator where it would be detrime

Re: Proposal: require spaces around the dot operator

2012-02-10 Thread Malcolm Wallace
-1. I agree with John. There is no point in fiddling with the dots, until we have real experience with a new records proposal (which can be implemented entirely without using dot, at least initially). Regards, Malcolm On 10 Feb 2012, at 03:14, John Meacham wrote: > I mean, it is not wor