8 Dec
2009
8 Dec
'09
10:19 a.m.
Deniz Dogan
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.
I (among others) suggested it right at the beginning when we were first defining the lexical syntax, and have raised the possibility again a couple of times now that unicode hyphens are available, but it wasn't liked at the beginning and hasn't excited much interest since. Why do you want them? -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk http://www.chaos.org.uk/~jf/Stuff-I-dont-want.html (updated 2009-01-31)