type equality symbol

[Johannes Waldmann]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:

 > The problem is that Haskell 98 already messed that up.
 > If type functions are to use lower-case letters, [...]

Yes.

The broken thing is that the upper/lower case distinction
has syntactic importance in the language definition at all.

I guess this was introduced to avoid writing out
some declarations. This is a bad design goal,
especially so for a declarative language.

Reminds me of ancient Fortran using the first letter of an identifier
for implicit typing (I .. N for integer, others for real).

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