9 Dec
2009
9 Dec
'09
10:40 a.m.
2009/12/9 Maciej Piechotka
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 10:56 +0100, Deniz Dogan wrote:
Has there been any serious suggestion or attempt to change the syntax of Haskell to allow hyphens in identifiers, much like in Lisp languages? E.g. hello-world would be a valid function name.
You mean to parse a - b differently then a-b? You don't have the problem in LISP as AFAIR you use (- a b) but in Haskell it would be a problem.
I understand. How do GHC extensions work? Would a (hopefully tiny) GHC extension make it possible to use normal hyphens (i.e. those in ASCII) in identifiers? If so, is anyone interested in writing one? -- Deniz Dogan