Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> The following are reserved keywords in Haskell:
> 
>   module, where, import, qualified, hiding, as, case, of, let, in, data, 
> type, newtype, class, instance, deriving, do
> 
> I'm pretty sure that's the complete list. I count 17 reserved words.

WRONG! It's actually 21. I forget if/then/else, and apparently "default" 
is a keyword...? (Ah, yes. The Haskell '98 Language Report explains that 
this very obscure keyword is for adjusting the type defaulting 
mechanism. As if you'd want to...)

> (I don't know anything 
> about Emacs, but I imagine it can't be hard to program it so that just 
> the 17 words above print in a different colour...)

Apparently it's already been done. (SUPRISE!)

http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~monnier/elisp/#haskell-mode

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