[Haskell-cafe] Re: Applicative do?

2009-10-10 Thread oleg
It seems the applicative do is almost identical to the form ML and Scheme has had since the beginning. Perhaps that semantic similarity might inform the syntactic debate. do a - f g b - h pure $ foo a b into this: (\a b - pure $ foo a b) * (f * g * h) This form, although very

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Applicative do?

2009-10-10 Thread Nicolas Pouillard
Excerpts from oleg's message of Sat Oct 10 11:36:44 +0200 2009: It seems the applicative do is almost identical to the form ML and Scheme has had since the beginning. Perhaps that semantic similarity might inform the syntactic debate. do a - f g b - h pure $ foo a b