Composition operator [was: Re: Records in Haskell]

[Morten Brodersen]

Requiring unicode characters for the Haskell syntax to solve a 
*relatively* simple problem is a bad bad idea.

It is the equivalent of shooting birds with nuclear missiles. Yes you do 
solve the "bird" problem but it is nothing compared with the fallout 
consequences.

Morten

On 13/01/12 10:15, Donn Cave wrote:
>> Quoth Brandon Allbery<allbery.b at gmail.com>,
> ...
>> Seems obvious to me:  on the one hand, there should be a plain-ASCII
>> version of any Unicode symbol; on the other, the ASCII version has
>> shortcomings the Unicode one doesn't (namely the existing conflict between
>> use as composition and use as module and now record qualifier).  So, the
>> Unicode one requires support but avoids weird parse issues.
> OK.  To me, the first hand is all you need - if there should be a
> plain-ASCII version of any Unicode symbol anyway, then you can avoid
> some trouble by just recognizing that you don't need Unicode symbols
> (let alone with different parsing rules.)
>
> 	Donn
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