Ian Zimmerman
Why in the world did the designers of Haskell permit the ' character to be both a prime (part of identifiers) and the single-character quote?
Personally, I think the Haskell syntax is beautiful. Programs are readable, yet concise. That's more important to me than correct parenthesis matching.
Didn't they realize what they were doing to would-be intelligent editors? Or were they just a bunch of rabid ed users?
The compiler obviously have little trouble separating character literals from primed names. If Emacs has a problem, I would question the "intelligence" of Emacs. Shouldn't an "intelligent" editor have sufficient parsing capabilities to deal with this? (BTW, I'm a happy Emacs user -- e.g. see my headers -- and I find the modes available pretty much sufficient.)
Has anyone found a way to deal with this in Emacs, _correctly_?
I would suggest gathering up all the syntactics that causes trouble, and posting to an Emacs newsgroup or mailing list. -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants