Documentation for implicit parameters

Alastair Reid alastair at reid-consulting-uk.ltd.uk
Wed Sep 11 15:45:11 EDT 2002


We normally expect these forms to be equivalent:

  let <bindings> in e

  e where <bindings>

As I was eliminating uses of with bindings, I found that this was not
true for implicit parameter bindings.  That is,

  f x = let ?x = e in e'

is valid, but 

  f x = e' where ?x = e

is not.

I found this while updating old code using s/with/where/.


It would be good to document this in the user guide.
(Better yet to restore the equivalence.)

A



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