[Haskell-cafe] Re: let and fixed point operator

Peter Hercek peter at syncad.com
Thu Aug 30 17:28:03 EDT 2007


Chaddaï Fouché wrote:
> But, even more trivial... You use this all the time when you define
> recursive function, you know ? You would need to add a "rec" keyword
> to the language if you disallowed this.

Great and new reason too. Trying to make a difference based on presence
  of formal argument would be bad since point-free is useful too.
  Well, in my opinion, only to a certain degree since from some point
  on it is more understandable to name intermediate results (points).

Thanks,
Peter.



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