[Haskell-cafe] an idea for modifiyng data/newtype syntax: use `::=` instead of `=`

[Alexey Muranov]

Hi Corentin,

On 8 août 2015, at 17:23, Corentin Dupont <corentin.dupont at gmail.com> wrote:

> One thing I quite don't understand is: do we really need to make the newtype/data distinction explicit?
> If we used only one keyword, it should be quite easy for the compiler to detect the distinction statically. 

I think someone more knowledgable in Haskell than me should answer this.

Alexey.
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