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 <ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com> wrote:
On 28 March 2013 06:30, Răzvan Rotaru <razvan.rotaru@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 this to
> 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?

>
> Also related to the topic:
>
> 1/ Is there a list of proposals for extensions to Haskell that has currently
> 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 but it looks outdated.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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