On 12/10/2015 09:09, David A Roberts wrote:
Hi,I raised this question on #haskell, and was advised that this was probably the best place to discuss. I see that Applicative Do is scheduled for GHC 8.0 [1], and was hoping that this might also enable support for Applicative Comprehensions [2]. Is this likely to be the case? If not, would it be difficult to extend the support for Applicative Do to also handle comprehensions? I'm willing to submit patches if necessary, but I'm not at all familiar with GHC internals, so would need some guidance. I understand that comprehensions tend not to be used much in idiomatic Haskell, but I find them to be useful for implementing DSLs, so would really like to see this be supported. For example, a matrix could be written in a familiar notation: > [ i + 2*j | i <- rows, j <- cols ] which is a little more readable (to those not familiar with Haskell) than > (\i j -> i + 2*j) <$> row <*> cols or > do { i <- rows; j <- cols; return (i + 2*j) }
Good idea - it's not currently implemented, but it wouldn't be hard to do. Want to make a feature request and CC me on it? Sounds like something that might just fit into my train journey to work :)
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