On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:59:45 +0300
Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Neil,
Tuesday, October 31, 2006, 4:04:23 AM, you wrote:
puns like Foo { .. } would be great too.
I'd vote for enabling them with a command line switch, rather than by default, as they can be confusing to folks learning the language.
How discussions come full circle :) I started this discussion on the Hugs users list because I want to _remove_ the command line switch for puns from Yhc. I'm not overly fussed whether I remove the entire feature, or just remove the command line and make it always on by default, but I do want the command line switch gone!
compiler switch can't be made a part of Haskell' :)
and anyway, i don't see how cmdline switch may help noivices - when they use ".." by mistake and program mysteriously not fails? or when they stare at the other's program and understand that this unknown ".." work only because this program compiled with some special switch?
I wasn't talking about the .., I was talking about the primary issue raised by the email, which has nothing to do with .. Instead of assuming that I was saying something totally useless and worthless, it might not be a bad idea to respond to _my_ email, not an email which contains a quote of one line from my email.
and yes, record puns seems very ggod candidate for H'. it's widely used (i used it until switched to GHC), it was already in Haskell, and now it is impelemnted by every compiler
wildcard puns is more discussible, but i personally need this feature
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