On the topic of liberalizing operators that are currently only used in
patterns, another one that would be amazing to have as a valid term (or
type operator) is @ using similar () tricks. 1 character operator names are
in dreadful short supply and really help make nice DSLs.
-Edward
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Ian Lynagh
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 07:26:16PM -0500, Edward Kmett wrote:
If space sensitivity or () disambiguation is being used on !, could one of these also be permitted on ~ to permit it as a valid infix term-level operator?
I don't think there's any reason ~ couldn't be an operator, defined with the (~) x y = ... syntax.
Allowing it to be defined with infix syntax would be a little trickier.
Hmm, I've just realised that if we decide to make !_ and !foo lexemes, then we'd also want !(+) to be a lexeme, which presumably means we'd want (+) to be a single lexeme too (and also `foo`, for consistency). But I don't think making that change would be problematic.
Thanks Ian
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