19 Nov
2005
19 Nov
'05
3:53 p.m.
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
Ketil Malde wrote: [about A.b and A . b potentially meaning different things:]
Syntax that changes depending on spacing is my number one gripe with the Haskell syntax
I've generally considered that one of the good ideas in most current languages (it's not specific to Haskell). ISTR there was a Basic dialect where IFX=0THENX=X+1 and IF X = 0 THEN X = X + 1 meant the same thing.
My point is that e.g. currently "foo? bar", "foo ?bar" and "foo ? bar" have (at least two) different meanings. Hierarchical naming collides with function composition (admittedly only rarely in practice). Template haskell collides with list comprehensions. Do you really think that is such a great idea? -k