Re: Proposal: require spaces around the dot operator

On 02/10/2012 06:09 AM, Gábor Lehel wrote:

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Isaac Dupree wrote:

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I support requiring spaces around the dot operator, *even if* we don't ever end up using it for anything else.

+1.

I would support requiring spaces around _all_ operators. I can't immediately think of any operator where it would be detrimental, at least, albeit my memory is not the greatest.

FWIW, it's pretty common to sometimes omit spaces around arithmetic operators +, -, *. This was common enough to derail the idea to make negative integer literals be lexed ( "-", no space, numeric literal ). So you'd have to fight that battle. I think spaces around all operators sounds nice in a new language; I'm not sure about Haskell. -Isaac