micro-rant

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk qrczak@knm.org.pl
9 Aug 2001 16:58:35 GMT


Tue, 7 Aug 2001 20:20:49 -0700, Memovich, Gary <GARY.MEMOVICH@kla-tencor.com> pisze:

> As long as were trying to clean up a final version of the Haskell
> 98 report, lets simplify it a little by getting rid of unary minus.

I'm against removing it, even if compatibility was not an issue.

Yes, it's an irregularity. But it's convenient, readable, and it
allows using negative constants in patterns.

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