[Haskell-cafe] Re: Allowing hyphens in identifiers

[Deniz Dogan]

2009/12/9 Maciej Piechotka <uzytkownik2 at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 10:56 +0100, Deniz Dogan wrote:
>> Has there been any serious suggestion or attempt to change the syntax
>> of Haskell to allow hyphens in identifiers, much like in Lisp
>> languages? E.g. hello-world would be a valid function name.
>>
>
> You mean to parse a - b differently then a-b? You don't have the problem
> in LISP as AFAIR you use (- a b) but in Haskell it would be a problem.
>

I understand. How do GHC extensions work? Would a (hopefully tiny) GHC
extension make it possible to use normal hyphens (i.e. those in ASCII)
in identifiers? If so, is anyone interested in writing one?

-- 
Deniz Dogan