Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
| What is not so nice is that you take a new keyword ('for'), which is | quite likely to have been used as a variable name in existing code. (Or | does it work out to use one of the 'special' names here?)
The latter is what Bjorn has done. That is, 'for' is only special in this one context. You can use it freely otherwise. As I understand it anyway.
Yes. There is even a "for" function somewhere in the libraries (or was it the testsuite, can't remeber), which tripped up one of my early versions, before I had remembered to make "for" as a special ID in the parser.
| I think it would be useful to write the proposal in complete detail up | on the Haskell' wiki.
Yes please. Bjorn? (It may just be a qn of transcribing the user manual stuff you have written.)
Sure. It seems that I have to be on the committee to write to the Wiki. Can I join it? /Björn