[Haskell-cafe] Strange subtract operator behavior

[Isaac Dupree]

Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
> Personally I could also live with allowing no space between the minus 
> sign and the number... If you leave a space, - becomes the subtract 
> operator.

I once thought that... there was the opposition that (x-1) subtraction 
of a constant appears too often.  And I found that I myself wrote that 
several times.  And saying "whitespace on the left but not the right" 
seems too complicated for Haskell lexer semantics.  So the current 
situation is just unhappy, that's all. (and maybe compiler warnings 
could still be implemented)

Isaac