#10006: Add baseline ellipsis as unicode alternative to «..» -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: zardoz | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.4 (Parser) | Keywords: Resolution: | Architecture: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Description changed by zardoz: Old description:

While the current unicode syntax is overall very pleasing to the eye, writing the ellipsis as two periods («..») sticks out quite noticably. I would welcome it if the horizontal ellipsis (U+2026, «…») would be allowed in places where «..» can be written.

I noticed that there was an old discussion on the mailing list which indicated that originally there was a unicode replacement for «..», namely the midline ellipsis, which wasn’t considered a good choice and was removed from the syntax. The regular ellipsis would have the advantage that it is one of the more common «fancy» characters and mapped by default in the X server compose definitions; as such it’s rather well- accepted and sees use even on IRC and in blogs. So user’s would potentially benefit from the regular ellipsis, much more so than the more exotic midline ellipsis.

New description: While the current unicode syntax is overall very pleasing to the eye, writing the ellipsis as two periods («..») sticks out quite noticably. I would welcome it if the horizontal ellipsis (U+2026, «…») would be allowed in places where «..» can be written. I noticed that there was an old discussion on the mailing list which indicated that originally there was a unicode replacement for «..», namely the midline ellipsis, which wasn’t considered a good choice and was removed from the syntax. The regular ellipsis would have the advantage that it is one of the more common «fancy» characters and mapped by default in the X server compose definitions; as such it’s rather well-accepted and sees use even on IRC and in blogs. So users would potentially benefit from the regular ellipsis, much more so than the more exotic midline ellipsis. -- -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10006#comment:1 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler

#10006: Add baseline ellipsis as unicode alternative to «..» -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: zardoz | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: ⊥ Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.4 (Parser) | Keywords: unicode, Resolution: invalid | UnicodeSyntax Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Type of failure: None/Unknown | Unknown/Multiple Blocked By: | Test Case: Related Tickets: #3894 | Blocking: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Changes (by thomie): * keywords: => unicode, UnicodeSyntax * status: new => closed * resolution: => invalid * milestone: => ⊥ Comment: I'm closing some of these `unicode` related feature requests, as a discussion needs to happen first on one of the mailing lists. Please reopen this ticket once there is sufficient support. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10006#comment:3 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler