On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 12:52:04PM +0000, Oliver Charles wrote:
On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 1:46 PM Tom Ellis < tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2013@jaguarpaw.co.uk> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 12:34:55PM +0000, Oliver Charles wrote:
People saying "it just saves a character" seems to have completely missed my point and source code readability/refactoring options from a tool's perspective. It does more than save a character.
Let's look at it from the opposite direction. If "ArgumentBlock" were already the default then we could remove complexity from the grammar for the cost of a single character. That sounds like a great tradeoff to me, and is the reason I can't support ArgumentBlock.
Really? You would rather increase syntactic complexity just to make the parser code simpler?
On the contrary, I consider it a *decrease* in syntactic complexity!