7 Dec
2007
7 Dec
'07
7:45 a.m.
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
The problem is that Haskell 98 already messed that up. If type functions are to use lower-case letters, [...]
Yes. The broken thing is that the upper/lower case distinction has syntactic importance in the language definition at all. I guess this was introduced to avoid writing out some declarations. This is a bad design goal, especially so for a declarative language. Reminds me of ancient Fortran using the first letter of an identifier for implicit typing (I .. N for integer, others for real). Best regards, -- -- Johannes Waldmann -- Tel/Fax (0341) 3076 6479/80 -- ---- http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~waldmann/ -------