fixity for (\\)

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

This proposal makes sense to me, but I'm only supposed to be fixing=20
serious bugs in the Haskell 98 definition, not making unforced changes.
So even though this change would be non-invasive and break no programs
I'm reluctant to adopt it.  Adding those extra parens is no big deal.

Unless there's a lot of support, I propose to make no change (in H98,
that is).

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Koen Claessen [mailto:koen@cs.chalmers.se]
| Sent: 17 January 2001 15:32
| To: The Haskell Mailing List
| Subject: fixity for (\\)
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| Hi all,
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| The Haskell report defines the fixity of (\\) to be:
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|   infix 5 \\
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| I propose that it gets the following fixity:
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|   infixl 5 \\
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| This means that one can write:
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|   as \\ bs \\ cs \\ ds
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| Which means:
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|   (((as \\ bs) \\ cs) \\ ds)
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| I think that one less often means the following:
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|   as \\ (bs \\ (cs \\ ds))
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| /Koen.
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