[Haskell-cafe] Re: Allowing hyphens in identifiers

Deniz Dogan writes:

2009/12/8 Jon Fairbairn :

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Deniz Dogan writes:

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[...] 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

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.

I prefer it too, but as far as Haskell is concerned, it's one of those things that's not really worth changing at this stage of its life. Changing the syntactic category of Unicode HYPHEN (U+2010) might still be possible, but someone (with more stamina than me) would have to advocate it. -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk