On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Kosyrev Serge <_deepfire@feelingofgreen.ru> wrote:
What about the precedents?
- TransformListComp: group, by, using - RecursiveDo: mdo, rec
If I see those then I know that something is going on. If I don't see `data` and do see some new keyword in its place then I am not reading Haskell code; I know this because I have Haskell code and it uses `data`. If I see `data` and it means something different than what Haskell means by `data`? Oh right, you have decided your incompatible language is still "Haskell", I just have to deal with the fact that it means something completely different now. Have you ever come back to a project 6 months after you last worked on it, or a year after, and had to figure it out again? Consider how well that works when you've decided to mutate the language in the meantime, and your mission critical code was not permitted to be rewritten in the new language because it is mission critical and "oh just run this automated script to fix it" is not a plan that passes business review processes. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net