Speaking of MagicHash, is it really necessary to take an operator with "potential" like (#) just to keep primitive symbols separate from the rest? At least from my 2010 Haskell learner perspective, it seems odd to create a whole language extension/lexical change just for that purpose.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:20 PM, wren ng thornton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wren@freegeek.org">wren@freegeek.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 10/28/10 10:42 AM, Ben Millwood wrote:<br>
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Here's the wiki page:<br>
<a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/CompositionAsDot" target="_blank">http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/CompositionAsDot</a><br>
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Personally I think function composition is what Haskell is all about<br>
and it is absolutely essential that the syntax for it be lightweight.<br>
If we think using . as qualification as well as composition is<br>
confusing, I'm much more inclined to say using it as qualification was<br>
a mistake.<br>
<br>
The comment on the wiki page about $ being more common in reality is<br>
not even close to true for my own code, and I don't think I'm unusual<br>
in that regard.<br>
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Agreed on both counts. Personally, I'd much rather have name qualification and record selection use a different character than to remove (.) as composition. And replacing (.) with some abomination like `o` is unthinkable.<br>
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As for the selector character, I'm partial to # but that would clash with MagicHash.<br>
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-- <br>
Live well,<br><font color="#888888">
~wren</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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