New syntax

Simon Peyton-Jones simonpj at microsoft.com
Fri Mar 31 07:26:52 EST 2006


| > Template Haskell breaks expressions with $,
| 
| It's very bad that with TH enabled you cannot write sections of the
form ($ x)
| anymore which are sometimes very handy.

I'd prefer it if TH only sprang into action when you wrote
	$x
or
	$(f x)

That is, no space after the $.  If you put spaces, you should get the
H98 $.  

If anyone feels like fixing this, I think it'd be a good thing to do.

S


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