Fractional/negative fixity?
Benjamin Franksen
benjamin.franksen at bessy.de
Thu Nov 9 13:25:36 EST 2006
Jón Fairbairn wrote:
> Syntax 1, based on Phil Wadler's improvement of my old
> proposal. The precedence relation is a preorder.[...]
>
> infix {ops_1; ops_2; ...; ops_n}
>
> The alternative syntax is exemplified thus:
>
> infix L + - (L * / (R ^))
>
> [...]
I think both ways (I like the second one more) are a lot better than
precedence numbers, whether they be fractional or integral.
Let us add compiler/interpreter support for querying known precedence/fixity
relations and it's (almost) perfect.
Cheers
Ben
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