[bitc-dev] Syntax Poll: Polymorphic Types

[Rick R]

Perhaps I'm missing something here, but how would postfix notation be at all
helpful for type construction? It seems like every sane language puts the
Constructor name 1st.

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <shap at eros-os.com>wrote:

> One curiosity on the ML family is that value constructors default to
> prefix notation (constructor name first), while type names use postfix
> notation.
>
> Because BitC has n-ary functions and constructors, the postfix type
> notation may turn out not to work for us -- I'm not yet sure. If it
> does, should we continue in the OCaml convention on this?
>
>
> shap
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