Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Allowing hyphens in identifiers

2009/12/8 Jon Fairbairn :

Deniz Dogan writes:

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Has there been any serious suggestion or attempt to change the syntax of Haskell to allow hyphens in identifiers, much like in Lisp languages? E.g. hello-world would be a valid function name.

I (among others) suggested it right at the beginning when we were first defining the lexical syntax, and have raised the possibility again a couple of times now that unicode hyphens are available, but it wasn't liked at the beginning and hasn't excited much interest since.  Why do you want them?

I just like the standard Lisp naming convention better than camel casing and saw someone on #haskell mentioning it the other day. No biggie though. -- Deniz Dogan