Re: local definitions of `=' etc.

1997-05-27 Thread Lennart Augustsson
Should `test' evaluate to `[1,2,3,4,5,6]' or `[4,5,6,4,5,6,4,5,6]'? That is, should the `do' syntactic sugar expand to code that uses plain `' or `Prelude.'? The Haskell 1.4 report is not clear on this point, IMHO. Here is a quote from the report (3 Expressions): Free variables and

local definitions of `=' etc.

1997-05-26 Thread Fergus Henderson
Consider the following code: test :: [Int] test = let return x = [x] x = f = x ++ (f (last x)) x y = x = (\ _ - y) indo { [1,2,3]; [4,5,6] } Should `test' evaluate to `[1,2,3,4,5,6]' or `[4,5,6,4,5,6,4,5,6]'? That is, should the `do' syntactic