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.
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 07:26:16PM -0500, Edward Kmett wrote:I don't think there's any reason ~ couldn't be an operator, defined with
> 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?
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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