Re: [Haskell-cafe] an idea for modifiyng data/newtype syntax: use `::=` instead of `=`

Hi Corentin, On 8 août 2015, at 17:23, Corentin Dupont wrote:

One thing I quite don't understand is: do we really need to make the newtype/data distinction explicit? If we used only one keyword, it should be quite easy for the compiler to detect the distinction statically.

I think someone more knowledgable in Haskell than me should answer this. Alexey.