Hello Jon, Wednesday, October 25, 2006, 6:37:33 PM, you wrote:
0xffff_3729 makes perfect sense as hex and the "_" does a nice job of separating the digits into readable groups.
0xffff~~3729 looks similar, but doesn't mean the same thing at all.
0xffff~~0x3729 is ugly and probably less readable than the unbroken form.
and it's again not the same - ~~ operator multiplies by 1000, not 65536 :)))
No. A small alteration to the lexical syntax for the sake of improved readability seems perfectly justifiable as long as it doesn't make the lexical syntax /significantly/ more complicated or harder to learn.
believe it or not, but i once implemented this as ghc patch and send to SPJ, who suggested me to postpone such micro-changes until new Haskell standard will be discussed :) afair, it was about 3 lines patch :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com