[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@knm.org.pl>]
Tue, 7 Aug 2001 20:20:49 -0700, Memovich, Gary <GARY.MEMOVICH@kla-tencor.com> pisze:
As long as were trying to clean up a final version of the Haskell 98 report, lets simplify it a little by getting rid of unary minus.
I'm against removing it, even if compatibility was not an issue.
Yes, it's an irregularity. But it's convenient, readable, and it allows using negative constants in patterns.
well, weird inconsistencies aside, negative constants could still be allowed by adding an optional initial '-' to the lexical specification of numeric constants... not that i really think that's the best option... i think people would be pretty frustrated if "-56.2" worked but not "-x"... m -- matt hellige matt@immute.net http://matt.immute.net