Unabbreviation of Haskell's grammar tokens for readability

[Solomon Ucko]

Thanks for pointing me to the repo. I'll work on the proposal when I get a
chance, but it sounds like it'll probably take a while anyways.

Thanks,
Solomon Ucko

On Mon, Apr 8, 2019, 12:41 Mario Blažević <mblazevic at stilo.com> wrote:

> On 2019-04-06 10:36 p.m., Solomon Ucko wrote:
> > In the Haskell 1998 & 2010 reports, I found the names of the tokens for
> > Haskell's lexical structure / syntax / grammar very hard to read, as
> > they were highly abbreviated. I might get more familiar with them, but
> > that doesn't help newcomers, like me now. Anyone mind if I change them
> > to use full words? Mind if I separate the words with underscores? I made
> > a few changes with simple find & replace, and it made it so much more
> > readable. It did make the lines longer (duh!), but I see no reason for
> > that to be much of a problem. Or would horizontal scroll and/or
> > line-wrapping be too much of an issue? Where would the changes go,
> anyways?
>
>         If the idea is to submit the changes for the next version of the
> Haskell report, they would eventually have to be submitted as a GitHub
> pull request against https://github.com/haskell/rfcs - the key word
> being eventually. You should first create a proposal with the
> explanation of the changes you want and have it accepted.
>
>
> > Another thing that would be useful but could be harder to implement
> > would be links from usages to declarations of tokens.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Solomon Ucko
> >
> > P.S. Please let me know if this has come up before, as I have just
> > joined this list.
> >
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