[Haskell-cafe] If you'd design a Haskell-like language, what would you do different?

[Chris Wong]

> One thing that concerns me is the use of capital letters to distinguish type
> and class names and constructors from values.  If I was doing it over I
> would use a typographical distinction like italics for types, bold for
> classes.  That way we could have a constructor named ∅, a function named ∈,
> a class named ℝ.

It's Algol all over again! Will we have to typeset our keywords in bold too?

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