2009/12/8 Jon Fairbairn <jon.fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk>:
Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> writes:
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