[Haskell-cafe] [extension]syntactic sugar for maps

[Răzvan Rotaru]

Sorry, I forgot to explain (probably because I'm too used to it). I am
referring to a syntax for easy creation of maps. Something equivalent to
lists:

to build a list: [ 1, 2, 3]
to build a map; { 1, "one", 2, "two", 3, "three"}

Without it I am always forced to use fromList.

Răzvan



On 27 March 2013 21:48, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 28 March 2013 06:30, Răzvan Rotaru <razvan.rotaru at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am terribly missing some syntactic sugar for maps (associative data
> > structures) in Haskell. I find myself using them more than any other data
> > structure, and I think there is no big deal in adding some sugar for
> this to
> > the language. I could not find out whether such an extension is beeing
> > discussed. If not, I would like to propose and extension. Any help and
> > suggestions are very welcome here. Thanks.
>
> What kind of syntactic sugar are you wanting?
>
> >
> > Also related to the topic:
> >
> > 1/ Is there a list of proposals for extensions to Haskell that has
> currently
> > been accepted in the new standard? I have not found one on Haskell'
> > (
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&group=state
> ),
> > but it looks outdated. No mentions to the new standard!
> >
> > 2/ I have seen somewhere a statement that a new language standard will be
> > published yearly. Didn't happen until now. Is there even a new standard
> on
> > the way?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Răzvan
> >
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