[Haskell-cafe] GHC Extension Proposal: ArgumentBlock

Edward Kmett ekmett at gmail.com
Tue Sep 8 07:04:30 UTC 2015


I do have to admit that the syntax there feels lighter and less cluttered.
I could get used to it.

-Edward

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:56 AM, Andrew Gibiansky <
andrew.gibiansky at gmail.com> wrote:

> In order to get a feel for  using this extension in real-world Haskell,
> take a look at the new ghc-reskin package:
>
> https://github.com/gibiansky/ghc-reskin
>
> This allows you to use ArgumentBlock *today* by passing GHC a few
> parameters to tell it to use ghc-reskin as a preprocessor. Take a look at
> the README for a full example.
>
> -- Andrew
>
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Bardur Arantsson <spam at scientician.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On 09/08/2015 03:08 AM, Dan Burton wrote:
>> > +1 people who like it can use it and people who don't like it don't
>> have to
>> > use it. Personally I wish it were the default because the superfluous $
>> > confuses a lot of people coming from other languages like Ruby.
>> >
>>
>> Whether it's "superfluous" depends entirely on one's PoV.
>>
>> > You can even write in the old style if you have the extension turned
>> on. It
>> > doesn't disable the old way of doing things. It just allows a new way.
>> It's
>> > entirely backwards compatible with working code when turned on, is it
>> not?
>> >
>>
>> Except now there are two "dialects" everybody has to read/understand.
>> That's not progress IMO. (Considering that it's so little gain. I really
>> don't understand the hatred of $ that some people seem to have.)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
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