[Haskell-cafe] Small syntax question

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Maurício,

Tuesday, July 11, 2006, 5:34:58 PM, you wrote:

>    Hi,

>    I can do this:

> (let a=3 in a) + (let b=4 in b)

> but not this:

> (a where a=3) + (b where b=3)

>    Why?

'where' is a part of function definition syntax, while 'let .. in ..'
is just an expression like 'if ...' or '(...)'.


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