Infix type and function definitions

[Henrik Nilsson]

Hi,

Simon PJ wrote (Re: BangPatterns: probably accept ==> undecided):

 > Not allowing infix functions on the LHS would be a notable
 > simplification.

And a little later (Re: Infix type constructors):

 > What we *want* is to say
 >
 >         data a + b = Left a | Right b
 >
 > That is, we want to define the type *constructor* (+)

Just to clarify, issues of what names can be used for
type constructors aside, are you proposing dropping
infix syntax for defining functions, but retaining infix
syntax for defining types (and type families etc.)?

Or would the last example have to be written

    data (+) a b = Left a | Right b

?

All the best,

/Henrik

-- 
Henrik Nilsson
School of Computer Science
The University of Nottingham
nhn at cs.nott.ac.uk

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