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

[Kosyrev Serge]

Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Kosyrev Serge <_deepfire at feelingofgreen.ru> wrote:
>
>     I don't mean to come across argumentative -- rather I merely want to point
>     out,
>     that the way of accomplishing it in a non-breaking way was proposed in this
>     thread:
>     an extra keyword + a pragma to guard against name clashes.
>     
> Not worth the fact that I now have to look for two effectively incompatible
> languages both calling themselves Haskell.

Do you mean that adding a new keyword to the language, guarded by a
language extension, really deserves this strong wording -- "effectively incompatible"?

What about the precedents?

 - TransformListComp: group, by, using
 - RecursiveDo: mdo, rec

Then, I guess there was a number of keywords introduced by Haskell 2010.

-- 
respectfully,
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