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

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Sun Aug 9 20:48:25 UTC 2015


El Aug 9, 2015, a las 16:04, Tom Ellis <tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2013 at jaguarpaw.co.uk> escribió:

> On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 09:12:31PM +0300, Alexey Muranov wrote:
>> On 9 août 2015, at 15:00, haskell-cafe-request at haskell.org wrote:
>>> From: Will Yager <will.yager at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] an idea for modifiyng data/newtype syntax: use `::=` instead of `=`
>>> Date: 9 août 2015 02:30:50 UTC+3
>>> To: Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: Haskell Cafe <haskell-cafe at haskell.org>, MigMit <miguelimo38 at yandex.ru>
>> 
>>> It is worth asking, then, if we should record these small aesthetic suggestions somewhere for consideration while designing the next major compatibility-breaking release of the Haskell specification (Haskell 2020 or what have you).
>> 
>> +1
> 
> Very much +1

I have to say, I'm very -1 on what sounds like a Perl 6 or Python 3 endeavor. Small and incremental seems to demonstrably be the way to make breaking changes.

tom


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