Quasi quoting

[Sebastian Fischer]

On Feb 1, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Jason Dusek wrote:

> Wouldn't `(|' and `|)' be safer?

I like this suggestion. It avoids conflicts with Template Haskell and  
list comprehensions. Conor McBride also picked these brackets as idiom  
brackets in his preprocessor she.

[$blah| ... |]  could be replaced with  (blah| ... |)  and  (| ... |)   
could be syntactic sugar for  (quote| ... |)  and use whatever  
definition of  quote  is in scope.

Would this introduce severe ambiguities? I can think of  (foo||bar)   
where you need to go to the end to see that it does not end in  |).

Sebastian


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