[Haskell-cafe] A better syntax for qualified operators?

[Bas van Dijk]

On Wednesday 27 September 2006 22:20, Brian Hulley wrote:
> (The other change needed for LL(1) is to give contexts a marker before they
> appear eg:
>
>         foo :: {MonadIO m} a -> m a
> )

Or move contexts to the end of a type and separate it with a | like Clean 
does: (See 6.2 of http://clean.cs.ru.nl/download/Clean20/doc/CleanRep2.0.pdf)

foo :: a -> m a | MonadIO m

Personally I like this style because I always think first about what the type 
of the function should be (a -> m a) and then about the contexts / 
restrictions that hold for the variables (MonadIO).

I do the same thinking when writing list comprehensions. First I think of the 
general form of the elements in the list: [ (a, b) ...
then I think about the restrictions on the variables: | a <- [1..10], b <- 
[1..10], a > b]

Bas van Dijk