[Haskell-cafe] if-then-else as rebindable syntax (was Re: Why does Haskell have the if-then-else syntax?)

Niklas Broberg niklas.broberg at gmail.com
Thu Jul 27 11:32:25 EDT 2006


On 7/27/06, Doaitse Swierstra <doaitse at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
> In short: you will not make Haskell a lot more popular by attracting
> category theorists, but by making
> transitions from Java and C as smooth and surprise-free as possible
> (and this is already hard enough).

Actually, this is exactly my argument for wanting this feature in the
language - only exchange Haskell for whatever DSL I want to embed in
Haskell. :-)

/Niklas


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