I feel that if people are confused about whether to use "let x = ..." or "x <- ...", changing the syntax to remove the "let" won't help.
On 16 April 2017 at 21:32, Vassil Ognyanov Keremidchiev <var...@gmail.com> wrote: > They are confused about when one should put "let x = ..." or "x <- ..." > mostly before they learn what is monad. > > 2017-04-16 21:15 GMT+03:00 Francesco Ariis <fa...@ariis.it>: >> >> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 08:21:43PM +0300, Vassil Ognyanov Keremidchiev >> wrote: >> > Okay, sorry for taking your time about those propositions. I'm just >> > thinking of ways for improving future Haskell. My feedback is mostly >> > from >> > talking with people and trying to teach them in Haskell. >> >> As others, I am not convinced with the proposal (given the amount of >> boxes marked "Translation" in the Haskell report, I wish we had a >> standard way to handling syntactic rewrites; it could come handy in >> yours and many more cases). >> >> But I am interested in newcomers and their introduction to the language: >> did they get confused by `let` or just pointed it out as superfluous? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-prime mailing list >> Haskell-prime@haskell.org >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime > > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-prime mailing list > Haskell-prime@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime > -- Michael Walker (http://www.barrucadu.co.uk) _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
