Fractional precedences? Re: Operator precedence help
Henning Thielemann
lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Mon Aug 17 13:40:25 UTC 2020
On Sun, 16 Aug 2020, Carter Schonwald wrote:
> I do think that the work needed to actually support fractional
> precedence in ghc is pretty minimal. Or at least I remember having a
> conversation about it a few years ago, and the conclusion was that
> adding precedence would be super easy to do, but just lacked any good
> motivating example from real libraries.
I remember this discussion, too, and I guess that it was started by Simon
Marlow and it ended with recalling that decades ago something more
advanced was discussed: Groups of equal precedence and relations between
the groups. But that one was too complicated to be implemented.
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