9 Dec
2009
9 Dec
'09
9:54 a.m.
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. About unicode - if something looks the same it should be parsed the same. I mean - we have already had problem historically with tab vs. spaces (vide Make). BTW. You can always use hello_world. Regards