[Haskell-cafe] [extension]syntactic sugar for maps

[Nicolas Trangez]

On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 21:30 +0200, Răzvan Rotaru wrote:
> I am terribly missing some syntactic sugar for maps (associative data
> structures) in Haskell. I find myself using them more than any other
> data
> structure, and I think there is no big deal in adding some sugar for
> this
> to the language. I could not find out whether such an extension is
> beeing
> discussed. If not, I would like to propose and extension. Any help and
> suggestions are very welcome here. Thanks.

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/OverloadedLists comes to mind.

Nicolas