patch applied (haskell-prime-status): BangPatterns: probably accept ==> undecided

John Meacham john at repetae.net
Thu Apr 17 20:39:06 EDT 2008


On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 06:22:14PM +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
> Hi
> 
> >  In the list of features "required for Haskell in practice", bang patterns are
> >  way up there.
> 
> But their syntax has issues:
> 
> a!b = ...
> 
> Did I just define the function "a" or the function "!"?

Interesting note, if we solve this, then we can apply the same thing to
the treatment of ~ and regain it as a usable operator.

        John

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