patch applied (haskell-prime-status): BangPatterns: probably accept ==> undecided

[John Meacham]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 01:36:33PM -0700, Simon Marlow wrote:
> 0. do nothing
> 1. use a Unicode operator for composition
> 2. require spaces around . as an operator
> 3. require spaces around all operators
> 4. use another ASCII operator for composition, e.g. <<<
>
> Nothing has been decided yet, but most of the committee tends to favour 
> (2), with some expressing a slight preference for (0).  We've pretty much 
> ruled out (1) and (3) as too radical, and as you say using Unicode is still 
> too impractical.

There is also the proposal to change the fixity of '$'. this would mean
that '.' becomes a lot more common as 

f $ a $ b $ c  
would now be written
f . a . b $ c

        John

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