[Haskell-cafe] If you'd design a Haskell-like language, what would you do different?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 04:51, Hans Aberg <haberg-1 at telia.com> wrote:

> The one on the list is not a mathematical symbol. It should be ⋆ STAR
> OPERATOR U+22C6 or ∗ ASTERISK OPERATOR U+2217.
>

...except, at least in my current font, the former is microscopic and the
latter not a whole lot better. The advantage of the one they chose is it's
big and readable.  (That's part of why I assume it's intended for kinds,
actually.)

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