Hi, I find the feature that the construct "let x = f x in expr" assigns fixed point of f to x annoying. The reason is that I can not simply chain mofifications a variable like e.g. this:
f x = let x = x * scale in let x = x + transform in g x When one is lucky then it results in a compile error; in worse cases it results in stack overflow in runtime. The annoying part is figuring out new and new variable names for essentially the same thing to avoid the search/evaluation of the fixed point. I suppose Haskell was designed so that it makes sense. The only usage I can see is like this: let fact = \x -> if x == 0 then 1 else x * fact (x-1) in ... but that is not any shorter than: let fact x = if x == 0 then 1 else x * fact (x-1) in So the question is what am I missing? Any nice use cases where fixed point search is so good that it is worth the trouble with figuring out new and new variable names for essentially the same stuff? Peter. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
