[Haskell-cafe] If you'd design a Haskell-like language, what would you do different?

[Hans Aberg]

On 20 Dec 2011, at 22:51, Chris Wong wrote:

>> One thing that concerns me is the use of capital letters to distinguish type
>> and class names and constructors from values.  If I was doing it over I
>> would use a typographical distinction like italics for types, bold for
>> classes.  That way we could have a constructor named ∅, a function named ∈,
>> a class named ℝ.
> 
> It's Algol all over again! Will we have to typeset our keywords in bold too?

There are in fact Unicode symbols for that, see
  http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D400.pdf
The monospace characters U+1D670-1D6A3 might be used for keywords. Font:
  http://www.stixfonts.org/

Not hard to add.

Hans