I'm not a member of the commitee either, but I do think it is to make the grammar context free and give the parser an easy way to distinguish. Because of the design as it is now, already a lexer can decide whether we have a function or an constructor operator.
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 12:52:44PM +0000, Olumide wrote:
> I'm new to Haskell and wondering why this restriction?
>
> For example (from LYH):
>
> infixr 5 :-:
> data List a = Empty | a :-: (List a) deriving (Show, Read, Eq, Ord)
Not a committee member, but there is a similar restriction (dichotomy,
rather) with 'functions' (first char lowercase) and 'constructors'
(first char uppercase), so mirroring it to infix operators/constructors
seems reasonable.
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