[Haskell-cafe] Re: Allowing hyphens in identifiers

[Jon Fairbairn]

Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan at gmail.com> writes:

> Has there been any serious suggestion or attempt to change the syntax
> of Haskell to allow hyphens in identifiers, much like in Lisp
> languages? E.g. hello-world would be a valid function name.

I (among others) suggested it right at the beginning when we
were first defining the lexical syntax, and have raised the
possibility again a couple of times now that unicode hyphens are
available, but it wasn't liked at the beginning and hasn't
excited much interest since.  Why do you want them?

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Jón Fairbairn                                 Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk
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