Re: patch applied (haskell-prime-status): proposal: remove string gaps

Mon Mar 31 15:26:03 PDT 2008 Simon Marlow * proposal: remove string gaps

Hm. This has escaped me. I don't find the rationale as documented on the Wikipage http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/RemoveStringGaps very convincing at all. I've thus added a few more cons: * string gaps are sometimes really helpful for formatting/pretty printing code neatly; the ++ alternative often necessecitates additional bracketing * the simplification of the lexical syntax is very minor * arguably, the syntax highlighting ought to be fixed as that's what at fault, not the language as such I have to confess I find string gaps rather elegant, and I think any sensible language ought to have them! /Henrik -- Henrik Nilsson School of Computer Science The University of Nottingham nhn@cs.nott.ac.uk This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.