[Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: monad subexpressions
Chris Smith
cdsmith at twu.net
Fri Aug 3 00:24:01 EDT 2007
Derek Elkins <derek.a.elkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ( <- expr ) -- makes sense, and I think it's unambiguous
> > ``expr`` -- back-ticks make sense for UNIX shell scripters
> The latter is not sensible to me at all. It doesn't nest well.
Ah, excellent point! Okay, it's gone then. Everything will then need
some kind of bracketing -- (), [], or {}. I dislike [] out of hand,
simply because this has nothing to do with lists.
> Neither does the former for that matter, but it forces parenthesizing.
I'm unclear on whether you still have an objection, given that yes it
does force parenthesizing.
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Chris Smith
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