Re: [Haskell-cafe] alphanum in infix constructors (and possibly functions as well) - why not?

4 Jun 2010


      On 4 June 2010 12:33, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
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Ozgur Akgun  writes:
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What stops us from allowing alphanum characters appear in the Infix
version
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(after the colon)? Can't it be relaxed to only start woth a colon?
The definition.  I believe this is probably to make parsing of
"foo:
I see.
Then people would need to put spaces between those things, right?
What a horrible consequence!
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So I want to be able to say something like:
data Expr = Expr :<   Expr          -- checks for LT betwen two Expr's
          | Expr :<2  Expr          -- a different implementation of the
same thing maybe
          | Expr :
How does a data structure have a faster implementation? >_>
Well it might indicate to use a different function while evaluating the
expression.
Still not a good example, I know.

Best,
Ozgur