[Haskell-cafe] Mo' comprehensions

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Diego,

Saturday, December 30, 2006, 6:05:46 PM, you wrote:

> Maybe there should be a Comprehensible class that's automatically
> mapped to comprehension syntax. It's rather odd to have them only for
> lists. That would be both more general and more elegant than just
> bringing back monad comprehensions.

> Is there any obvious reason why this wouldn't work?

"it will make error messages harder to understand for novices", "it will
make execution slower", "it will make programs more buggy" - standard list
of arguments against making anything in Haskell more polymorphic :)




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