[mercury-users] Proposed change to char literal syntax

[Michael Day]

Hi Nicholas,

>> which allows us to use ' ' as a UNICODE character literal if we feel 
>> so inclined.
> 
> That doesn't strike me as a good thing...

Why not?

You have to import the unicode module to access these functions, and you 
can only use them when you're expecting a UNICODE codepoint, not a char, 
so they don't conflict with anything.

If integer literals were customisable as well then Mercury could support 
BigInteger literals and other number types transparently. Defining the 
semantics of literal values in the library seems more elegant than 
hard-wiring them.

Cheers,

Michael

-- 
Print XML with Prince!
http://www.princexml.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
mercury-users mailing list
Post messages to:       mercury-users at csse.unimelb.edu.au
Administrative Queries: owner-mercury-users at csse.unimelb.edu.au
Subscriptions:          mercury-users-request at csse.unimelb.edu.au
--------------------------------------------------------------------------