Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:10:24PM -0000, Brian Hulley wrote:
2) Use "," instead of ";" in the block syntax so that all brace blocks can be replaced by layout if desired (including record blocks)
Wouldn't it be better to use ; instead of , also for record syntax?
I thought of this also, but the nice thing about using commas everywhere is that it is consistent with tuples and lists: [a,b,c] (a,b,c) {a,b,c} I admit it takes some getting used to to write: map f (h;t) = f h;map f t but you couldn't use commas in tuple syntax if they were also used as list cons. Also, I'm using test :{Eq a, Show a} a -> () instead of test :: (Eq a, Show a) => a->() and the comma here is particularly nice because it suggests a set, which is exactly what the context is. Regards, Brian.