[ghc-steering-committee] #477: Unicode ellipsis, recommendation: accept

[Vladislav Zavialov (int-index)]

-1 from me.

The proposed (… U+2026) is three dots, so it could be the UnicodeSyntax equivalent to three ASCII dots. However, Haskell’s range notation is two ASCII dots.

Personally I use three dots to indicate omissions in the source text, like this:

  f x = …

So that is the meaning I’d like to reserve for three dots, not ranges.

The proposal could use ‥ U+2025 instead.

- Vlad


> On 15 Feb 2022, at 14:27, Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
> 
> Dear Committee,
> 
> Proposal #277 “Unicode ellipsis” has been submitted by Ignat Insarov,
> and I’m shepherding it myself.
> 
> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/477
> 
> https://github.com/kindaro/ghc-proposals/blob/unicode-ellipsis/proposals/477-unicode-ellipsis.md
> 
> This is a very small proposal that lets GHC understand the nice Unicode
> syntax `…` in places where in ASCII world we have .., under
> -XUnicodeSyntax.
> 
> I am fond of Unicode in general, and I expect that users of -
> XUnicodeSyntax expect this to work, and therefore recommend acceptance
> of this proposal.
> 
> Cheers,
> Joachim
> 
> 
> 
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