[Haskell-cafe] let vs. where

[Robin Green]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:51:13 -0800
"Dan Piponi" <dpiponi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Up until yesterday I had presumed that guards only applied to
> functions. But I was poking about in the Random module and discovered
> that you can write things like
> 
> a | x > 1 = 1
>   | x < -1 = -1
>   | otherwise = x
> 
> where 'a' clearly isn't a function.

Isn't it a function taking zero arguments?
-- 
Robin