On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 04:48:25PM -0400, amindfv@gmail.com wrote:

El Aug 9, 2015, a las 16:04, Tom Ellis escribió:

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On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 09:12:31PM +0300, Alexey Muranov wrote:

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On 9 août 2015, at 15:00, haskell-cafe-request@haskell.org wrote:

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From: Will Yager Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] an idea for modifiyng data/newtype syntax: use `::=` instead of `=` Date: 9 août 2015 02:30:50 UTC+3 To: Hilco Wijbenga Cc: Haskell Cafe , MigMit

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It is worth asking, then, if we should record these small aesthetic suggestions somewhere for consideration while designing the next major compatibility-breaking release of the Haskell specification (Haskell 2020 or what have you).

+1

Very much +1

I have to say, I'm very -1 on what sounds like a Perl 6 or Python 3 endeavor. Small and incremental seems to demonstrably be the way to make breaking changes.

My +1 was to keeping a record of small but breaking changes that, if made at inception, would have benefitted what Haskell is now. What anyone else wants to *do* with such a record is up to them. Tom

So that copy-pasting from the paper to the interpreter would result in compilation failures. Bravo. 10.08.2015, 12:22, "Alexey Muranov" :

On Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 11:53:35 PM UTC+3, Tom Ellis wrote:

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My +1 was to keeping a record of small but breaking changes that, if made at inception, would have benefitted what Haskell is now.  What anyone else wants to *do* with such a record is up to them.

A separate +1 to this emphasis on keeping track of possible or desired (even if unfeasible) improvements.

Here is my another argument for this: academic papers about Haskell or functional programming do not have to keep to the actual Haskell syntax.  IMO, they could benefit in clarity by switching to some pseudo-Haskell with `:` instead of `::` for typing, `::=` instead of `=` in `data` definition, etc:  the description language of the underlying abstraction should be independent from the current implementation syntax.

Alexey. ,

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Me too. They usually contain quite a lot of usable, or, at least, runnable code. 10.08.2015, 12:30, "Alexey Muranov" :

On 10 août 2015, at 12:28, Miguel Mitrofanov wrote:

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 So that copy-pasting from the paper to the interpreter would result in compilation failures. Bravo.

I was talking about academic papers,, not about programmers' blog posts.

Alexey.