If you made tooling aware of ($) would you need to check that it is importing the Prelude version and not another one? Not that I'm suggesting that having a different implementation would be sensible. This seems rather good to me. It seems sensible and I don't really see the ambiguity. On Sun, 6 Sep 2015 at 11:11 Tom Ellis < tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2013@jaguarpaw.co.uk> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 06:03:00PM +0000, Oliver Charles wrote:
I mean that people us $ for purely syntactical purposes. If an editor is going to make refactorings and retain a certain sense of style, then the tool needs to know that $ is sometimes to be used. The refactoring (or otherwise) tool now has to be aware of the syntax of Haskell and special symbols in the Prelude.
It seems unlikely that making the tool aware of ($) is much more (or less) difficult than making it aware of when it can omit brackets from a multiline do, lambda etc. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe