On 8/30/07, Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Obviously you might very well have *meant* to write x = f x. But would > it be possible to add some kind of optional compiler warning to find > such assignments?
The thing that convinced me to learn Haskell in the first place was the fact that you could write x = f x. Equations where you refer to the same variable on the left and right hand sides are the bread of butter and mathematics, and I was really pleased to find a programming language that let me do the same. So to me the idea of having a warning for this is a bit like putting a sign on bottled water saying "Warning: Contents may be wet". But that's just me. :-) Still, it might be useful to for the compiler to warn when a newly introduced name shadows another one. -- Dan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
