itz> Why in the world did the designers of Haskell permit the ' itz> character to be both a prime (part of identifiers) and the itz> single-character quote? Didn't they realize what they were doing itz> to would-be intelligent editors? Or were they just a bunch of itz> rabid ed users? Jesper> In standard ML: Jesper> - fun f' x = x + 1;
val f' = fn : int -> int
Jesper> And as far as I see, vim handles that kind of syntax Jesper> perfectly. I do not find the allowance disturbing, rather neat Jesper> (I tend to augment helper functions with the '). You miss my point: I agree that having a prime character for id's is neat. But in SML, that's the _only_ role it has, character literals are written like #"x". With Haskell's characters (and Ocaml's :-( ) there's no way to avoid confusion on part of the editor, as far as I can see. I actually plan to do something like this, let c s = head s let lparen = c"(" to avoid using character literals at all. I was just wondering if someone had a better idea. Please read my original post again if you don't understand what i mean (and aren't bored yet by this admittedly trivial topic). -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 The world has taken on a thickness of vulgarity that raises a spiritual man's contempt to the violence of a passion. Baudelaire