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

[Rustom Mody]

2011/12/22 Gábor Lehel <illissius at gmail.com>

> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Robert Clausecker <fuzxxl at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Image you would create your own language with a paradigm similar to
> > Haskell or have to chance to change Haskell without the need to keep any
> > compatibility. What stuff would you add to your language, what stuff
> > would you remove and what problems would you solve completely different?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for all answers, yours
> >
> >        Robert Clausecker
>

I would have compose (probably not called '.') read the same way we read
this sentence (and unix pipes) ie left to right.

I would not overload . to mean compose and module-access.

Probably gadt could be the norm and classic 'data' could be removed.
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