<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I understand the problem, but let me make sure I understand the solution, as the proposal is rather terse and refers to the other proposal, that introduces the exotic lexing scheme.</div><div><br></div><div>So am I right in understanding that `f-1` will lex as `f - 1`, but `f -1` will lext as `f (-1)`?   The reason this would work like that is because the "white space" token before the `-` is not "closing" and so we know to parse a negative literal. </div><div><br></div><div>Just as a note, I never quite understood how we plan to implement #229---is it supposed to be done through state in the lexer, or do we have a simple lexer that keeps all tokens, including white space, and then write a post-processing function to glue and rejigger tokens?</div><div><br></div><div>-Iavor</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 9:05 AM Spiwack, Arnaud <<a href="mailto:arnaud.spiwack@tweag.io">arnaud.spiwack@tweag.io</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I've got no strong opinion. But it does sound reasonable to me.</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe this should also be a signal to deprecate NegativeLiterals in favour of LexicalNegation.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 11:16 AM Alejandro Serrano Mena <<a href="mailto:trupill@gmail.com" target="_blank">trupill@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">+1</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This has traditionally been a pain point for Haskell newcomers, so any fix is welcome.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El El mié, 15 jul 2020 a las 11:07, Richard Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:rae@richarde.dev" target="_blank">rae@richarde.dev</a>> escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 15, 2020, at 8:58 AM, Joachim Breitner <<a href="mailto:mail@joachim-breitner.de" target="_blank">mail@joachim-breitner.de</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><span style="font-family:Menlo-Regular;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">I suggest we accept that proposal.</span><br style="font-family:Menlo-Regular;font-size:11px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"></div></blockquote></div><br><div>+1</div><div><br></div><div>Yes, let's accept -- and if we act quickly, it can be so for 8.12.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Richard</div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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