<div dir="ltr">In order to get a feel for using this extension in real-world Haskell, take a look at the new ghc-reskin package:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/gibiansky/ghc-reskin">https://github.com/gibiansky/ghc-reskin</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>This allows you to use ArgumentBlock *today* by passing GHC a few parameters to tell it to use ghc-reskin as a preprocessor. Take a look at the README for a full example.</div><div><br></div><div>-- Andrew</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Bardur Arantsson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spam@scientician.net" target="_blank">spam@scientician.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 09/08/2015 03:08 AM, Dan Burton wrote:<br>
> +1 people who like it can use it and people who don't like it don't have to<br>
> use it. Personally I wish it were the default because the superfluous $<br>
> confuses a lot of people coming from other languages like Ruby.<br>
><br>
<br>
</span>Whether it's "superfluous" depends entirely on one's PoV.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> You can even write in the old style if you have the extension turned on. It<br>
> doesn't disable the old way of doing things. It just allows a new way. It's<br>
> entirely backwards compatible with working code when turned on, is it not?<br>
><br>
<br>
</span>Except now there are two "dialects" everybody has to read/understand.<br>
That's not progress IMO. (Considering that it's so little gain. I really<br>
don't understand the hatred of $ that some people seem to have.)<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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