Proposal: ArgumentDo

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 11.07.2016, 08:31 +0200 schrieb Sven Panne:
> Because at first glance, this is visually only a tiny fraction away
> from
>  
>    (if c then f else g)  it d them a elsa b
> 
> which would be parsed in a totally different way. (Personally, I
> think that if/then/else is useless in Haskell and just a concession
> for readers from other programming languages. Having a plain old "if"
> function would have done the job in a more consistent way.) Of course
> syntax highlighting improves readability here, but code should be
> easily digestible in black and white, too. Visual clues matter...

I believe we can and should expect programmers to know the keywords
(there are not many of them) and should _not_ compromise other goals
for “makes similar sense even if a keyword is mistake or mistyped as a
symbol name”.


Greetings,
Joachim

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