[Haskell-cafe] GHC Extension Proposal: ArgumentBlock

[James Burton]

On 8 Sep 2015 3:12 pm, Carlo Nucera <meditans at gmail.com> wrote:
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> -1
>
> I wouldn't like to read code written with this extension. It feels to
> me like an ad-hoc case,
> hindering the general uniformity of the language.

I agree, and think it could be confusing to switch between styles in different codebases or in a single codebase.

I teach Haskell and encourage students to use brackets liberally if they're not sure when they're needed and experiment with removing redundant ones and replacing others with $ later on. I don't think this is one of the things they tend to get confused about.

> It has been a nice
> opportunity to read up
> the haskell report, though :)
>
> 2015-09-08 15:35 GMT+02:00 Alexander Berntsen <alexander at plaimi.net>:
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> > ($) is just a function like any other*, so I don't think it's a great
> > argument for or against a syntax extension.
> >
> > *Bar a few details like the special infix typing rule for
> > accommodating impredicative polymorphism.
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