[Haskell-cafe] Encoding of Haskell source files

Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fischer at googlemail.com
Mon Apr 4 12:24:31 CEST 2011


On Monday 04 April 2011 11:50:03, Roel van Dijk wrote:
> > and there aren't very many possibilities for the
> > leading characters of a Haskell source file, are there?
> 
> Since a Haskell program is a sequence of Unicode code points the
> programmer can choose from up to 1,112,064 characters. Many of these
> can legitimately be part of the interface of a module, as function
> names, operators or names of types.

Colin spoke of *leading* characters, for .hs files, that drastically 
reduces the possibilities - not for .lhs, though.



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