[Haskell-cafe] Strange subtract operator behavior

[Peter Verswyvelen]

Concurrent Clean uses the ~ symbol for unary negation. That's also a way 
of fixing it.

Personally I could also live with allowing no space between the minus 
sign and the number... If you leave a space, - becomes the subtract 
operator.

Coming from C++ I always make the mistake to forget parentheses around 
negative numbers in Haskell, which is very often needed.

Neil Mitchell wrote:
> Hi
>
>   
>>> I think you should have to write negative numbers using the syntax
>>> 0-10, since currently having one single unary operator is ugly.
>>>       
>> I think writing 0-10 is ugly.
>>     
>
> Ugly - yes. But very clear as to its meaning. How often do people
> actually write negative numeric literals? My guess is that -1 is the
> most common by a long way, but even that is quite rare. Of course,
> real statistics of real programs are the only answer.
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil
>
>
>   

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