5 Feb
2006
5 Feb
'06
11:38 a.m.
Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
LA> In my opinion all the special syntactic sugar for lists should go LA> away. I don't think lists are special enough to motivate it.
i have proposal (not for Haskell', of course) of using ":" and "[]" syntax for general notion of traversable collections:
Minor point, perhaps, but I should mention that : is not special syntax -- it is a perfectly valid infix constructor. [] and all its variants, however, are special syntax. -Paul