On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:

That would be nice if we had a clean slate, but I don't people are going to change their whole import lists now.

I read the proposal as making all commas optional, not as requiring them to not be present. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:

I don't think that's necessarily is good style. I don't think we want two different ways of doing import lists.

Yes; I kinda hate the idea myself, it encourages an unreadable programming style. But it's not the wholesale breaking change you were suggesting, either. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net

Not a concrete suggestion, but just a related data point / nod to the sanity of the suggestion: I'm not sure I'd remove them entirely either, but FWIW, we don't require commas in fixity declarations in Ermine and it works well. On the other hand, our import lists are rather more complicated than Haskell's due to a need for extensive renaming on import though, so we don't shed the commas, but wind up using layout-based separation there, instead, avoiding conflicts by another means. That ship, however, has sailed for Haskell. ;) -Edward On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Richard Eisenberg wrote:

To be fair, I'm not sure I like the make-commas-optional approach either. But, the solution occurred to me as possible, so I thought it was worth considering as we're exploring the design space.

And, yes, I was suggesting only to make them optional, not to require everyone remove them.

Richard

On Sep 26, 2014, at 5:34 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:

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I don't think that's necessarily is good style. I don't think we want two different ways of doing import lists.

Yes; I kinda hate the idea myself, it encourages an unreadable programming style. But it's not the wholesale breaking change you were suggesting, either.

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