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

[Wolfgang Jeltsch]

Am Freitag, 18. April 2008 11:54 schrieb Sittampalam, Ganesh:
> Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
> > Not allowing infix functions on the LHS would be a notable simplification.
>
> This would significantly weaken a useful property of Haskell, that
> definitions and uses often share the same concrete syntax. It's very natural
> to be able to define things that way and it would be a real shame to lose it
> (and I think it would break a lot of existing code).

+1

(f . g) x = f (g x) is really nice.

> > In any case, I've always thought this was weird:
> >        Just x == Just y = x == y
>
> It takes a little getting used to, but I don't find it that weird.

+1

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Best wishes,
Wolfgang