<div dir="ltr">Agreed.<div><br></div><div>The name pure is pretty awful. It's not _that_ big of a deal, but pure is annoyingly senseless and my coauthor noticed this of her own accord as well.</div><div><br></div><div>+1 for the proposal, just wish it wasn't named pure ;)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 6:47 PM, wren romano <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wren@community.haskell.org" target="_blank">wren@community.haskell.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Bardur Arantsson <<a href="mailto:spam@scientician.net">spam@scientician.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Reasoning: I happen to rather like "return" for purely pedagogical<br>
> purposes since it lets you pretend (as a sufficient-for-beginners<br>
> approximation) that code in the do-notation in IO is imperative code and<br>
> "return" is the usual name for what it does in that context. I think<br>
> that has a certain value, but "Legacy" is quite off-putting.<br>
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</span>+1.<br>
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I like the proposal to merge pure/return into a single thing, but I<br>
rather prefer the name "return" for all the same pedagogical reasons<br>
it was originally chosen.<br>
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~wren<br>
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