Re: [Haskell-cafe] If you'd design a Haskell-like language, what would you do different?

2011/12/22 Gábor Lehel

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Robert Clausecker wrote:

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Image you would create your own language with a paradigm similar to Haskell or have to chance to change Haskell without the need to keep any compatibility. What stuff would you add to your language, what stuff would you remove and what problems would you solve completely different?

Thanks in advance for all answers, yours

Robert Clausecker

I would have compose (probably not called '.') read the same way we read this sentence (and unix pipes) ie left to right. I would not overload . to mean compose and module-access. Probably gadt could be the norm and classic 'data' could be removed.