[Haskell-cafe] Proposal: New syntax for Haskell

[Edward Z. Yang]

This is completely irrelevant, but the .chs extension is
already taken by the c2hs tool.

Cheers,
Edward

Excerpts from Niklas Hambüchen's message of Tue Sep 10 00:30:41 -0700 2013:
> Impressed by the productivity of my Ruby-writing friends, I have
> recently come across Cucumber: http://cukes.info
> 
> 
> It is a great tool for specifying tests and programs in natural
> language, and especially easy to learn for beginners.
> 
> I propose that we add a Cucumber syntax for Haskell, with the extension
> ".chs", next to .hs and .lhs.
> 
> 
> Code written in cucumber syntax is concise and easy to read: You can
> find some example code in https://gist.github.com/nh2/6505995. Quoting
> from that:
> 
>   Feature: The Data.List module
> 
>     In order to be able to use lists
>     As a programmer
>     I want a module that defines list functions
> 
>     Scenario: Defining the function foldl
>       Given I want do define foldl
>       Which has the type (in brackets) a to b to a (end of brackets),
>                          to a, to list of b, to a
>       And my arguments are called f, acc, and l
>       When l is empty
>       Then the result better be acc
>       Otherwise l is x cons xs
>       Then the result should be foldl f (in brackets) f acc x
>                                 (end of brackets) xs
> 
> 
> PS: People even already started a testing framework for Haskell in it:
> https://github.com/sol/cucumber-haskell#cucumber-for-haskell
>