[Haskell-beginners] HLint: use void instead of return()

[David McBride]

The vast majority of people use the first form.  I guess the second form
would be used if void were in prelude but it isn't, so no one does.


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 7:41 AM, harry <voldermort at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I have some monadiccode of the form:
>   foo >>= something >>= bar >> return ()
>
> HLint is telling me to change this to:
>   void (foo >>= something >>= bar)
>
> Why is the second form considered better? I actually find the original to
> be
> clearer.
>
>
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