On Dec 7, 2007 12:45 PM, Johannes Waldmann <
waldmann@imn.htwk-leipzig.de
> wrote:
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,
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