[mercury-users] Proposed change to char literal syntax

[Michael Day]

Hi Ralph,

> I now understand your proposal.  The problem with it is that it doesn't
> fix the problem I described, namely the type inference explosion that
> can occur when trying to distinguish between chars and single-letter
> data constructors.  What I want to do is make char literals completely
> separate from other names so that this cannot occur.

Is this only a problem when some single character no-argument data 
constructors have actually been defined?

Cheers,

Michael

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