2008/9/1 Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ryan Ingram wrote: >> >> What are you trying to get from the "let" binding? Sharing? >> > > Convinience. > > let x = foo in bar > > is so much easier to write than > > (\x -> bar) foo > > when foo and/or bar is large. > > Trouble is, as soon as you allow let-bindings, some clever person is going > to start writing recursive ones. And actually, that's a useful thing to be > able to do, but it makes figuring out the technical details... rather > nontrivial. (Seriously, I had no idea I was going to get into this much > trouble!)
I'm confused -- why is this different to having recursive top-level bindings? Jeremy _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
