I agree. There are other ways that to solve the same problem as the case
distinction does.
On Dec 7, 2007 12:45 PM, Johannes Waldmann
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).
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