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

[Iavor Diatchki]

I think this looks reasonable too (with the qualification that I didn't
look at it in much detail).

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 9:46 AM Alejandro Serrano Mena <trupill at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> This proposal does two things related to unicode characters
>>
>>    - 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)
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> As the title entails, it's essentially a clean up of the documentation,
>> to match reality. It seems quite uncontroversial.
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