[Haskell-cafe] Syntax of 'do'

Maurí­cio briqueabraque at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 29 09:41:41 EDT 2008


Hi,

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Keywords says that:

-------------
[do is a] syntactic sugar for use with monadic
expressions. For example:

  do { x ; result <- y ; foo result }

is shorthand for:

  x >> y >>= \result -> foo result
-------------

I did some tests hiding Prelude.>> and Prelude.>>=
and applying >> and >>= to non-monadic types, and
saw that 'do' would not apply to them. So, I would
like to add the following to that text:

-------------
as long as proper types apply:

x :: Prelude.Monad a
y :: Prelude.Monad b
foo :: b -> Prelude.Monad c
-------------

Is that correct (Haskell and English)?

Thanks,
Maurício



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