[Haskell-cafe] Syntax of 'do'

[Miguel Mitrofanov]

-XNoImplicitPrelude ?

On 29 Aug 2008, at 17:41, Maurí cio wrote:

> 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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