Re: [Haskell-cafe] [extension]syntactic sugar for maps

Sorry, I forgot to explain (probably because I'm too used to it). I am referring to a syntax for easy creation of maps. Something equivalent to lists: to build a list: [ 1, 2, 3] to build a map; { 1, "one", 2, "two", 3, "three"} Without it I am always forced to use fromList. Răzvan On 27 March 2013 21:48, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

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Hi,

I am terribly missing some syntactic sugar for maps (associative data structures) in Haskell. I find myself using them more than any other data structure, and I think there is no big deal in adding some sugar for

On 28 March 2013 06:30, Răzvan Rotaru wrote: this to

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the language. I could not find out whether such an extension is beeing discussed. If not, I would like to propose and extension. Any help and suggestions are very welcome here. Thanks.

What kind of syntactic sugar are you wanting?

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Also related to the topic:

1/ Is there a list of proposals for extensions to Haskell that has

currently

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been accepted in the new standard? I have not found one on Haskell' ( http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&group=state ), but it looks outdated. No mentions to the new standard!

2/ I have seen somewhere a statement that a new language standard will be published yearly. Didn't happen until now. Is there even a new standard on the way?

Cheers, Răzvan

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