Re: character syntax

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 08:00:36AM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

I am new to the language (coming from ML) and I am sorry if my first post turns out to be a flamebait, but I can't help it:

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? Didn't they realize what they were doing to would-be intelligent editors? Or were they just a bunch of rabid ed users?

In standard ML: - fun f' x = x + 1;

val f' = fn : int -> int

And as far as I see, vim handles that kind of syntax perfectly. I do not find the allowance disturbing, rather neat (I tend to augment helper functions with the '). -- Jesper