[ghc-steering-committee] #403: Cleanup lexical structure, recommendation: accept

[Alejandro Serrano Mena]

This proposal seems fine to me.

Alejandro

El El vie, 5 mar 2021 a las 10:22, Simon Peyton Jones via
ghc-steering-committee <ghc-steering-committee at haskell.org> escribió:

> I don’t have a well-informed opinion, but I certainly have no objection.
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> Simon
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> *From:* ghc-steering-committee <ghc-steering-committee-bounces at haskell.org>
> *On Behalf Of *Spiwack, Arnaud
> *Sent:* 04 March 2021 14:54
> *To:* GHC Steering committee <ghc-steering-committee at haskell.org>
> *Subject:* [ghc-steering-committee] #403: Cleanup lexical structure,
> recommendation: accept
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> Dear all,
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> As the shepherd for proposal #403 Cleanup lexical structure of numbers
> and identifiers
> <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fghc-proposals%2Fghc-proposals%2Fpull%2F403&data=04%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7Cb28a9399e2fd44379fd308d8df1d66b0%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637504665725379654%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=Rfp%2F%2BPsrs%2FQWa9k67NTAOLAI7PXccca%2BVLBZvcNVYME%3D&reserved=0>,
> let me recommend acceptance.
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> This proposal does two things related to unicode characters
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>    - Codify the actual current lexing of unicode symbols, which is
>    actually different from the Haskell 2010 report (in particular, only ascii
>    digits are allowed in number literals)
>    - Adds the possibility to use unicode letters which are neither upper
>    case nor lower case (such as many asian scripts) as trailing symbols for
>    identifier (as well as in String and Char literals)
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> It doesn't make it possible (nor close the door) to use letter-like
> numbers (such as latin numerals) as identifiers, nor use non-ascii digits
> in number literals.
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> As the title entails, it's essentially a clean up of the documentation, to
> match reality. It seems quite uncontroversial.
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