[Haskell-cafe] Re: Field names

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Sep 10, at 8:53, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 4:07:41 PM, you wrote:
>> Do you have any reference for that use of infixing
>> constructors by start their name with ':'? That's
>> interesting, and I didn't know about it.
>
> really? ;)
>
> sum (x:xs) = x + sum xs
> sum []     = 0


I think that only counts as the origin of the idea; isn't :-prefixed  
infix constructors a ghc-ism?

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/data-type-extensions.html#infix-tycons

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