
1 Jun
2006
1 Jun
'06
6:05 a.m.
Brian Hulley wrote:
Another thing which causes difficulty is the use of qualified operators, and the fact that the qualification syntax is in the context free grammar instead of being kept in the lexical syntax (where I think it belongs).
You are in luck, because according to the Haskell 98 Report, qualified names are in the lexical syntax! http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/syntax-iso.html So, C.f is a qualified name, but C . f is composition of the Constructor C with the function f. -- Thomas H