Quasi quoting
Simon Peyton-Jones
simonpj at microsoft.com
Wed Feb 3 10:39:36 EST 2010
| > Or we could switch to different quotation brackets altogether for
| > quasiquotation, the obvious possibility being <|...blah...|>, and
| > <pads|...blah...|>. That would not be hard, and would only affect the
| > handful of current quasiquote users. But it'd remove "<|" and "|>" as a
| > valid operators, at least for quasiquote customers. I don't know how bad
| > that would be.
|
| Good brackets are scarce. I'd prefer to stick with one of the many
| fine variations on [|...|] currently being discussed.
I agree with this. My gut feel is to stick with [| ..|] and variants, and live with the fact that TH and QQ aren't using them in quite the same way.
S
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