[Haskell-cafe] 'data' syntax - a suggestion

[Thomas Conway]

On 9/27/07, ok <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
> I have often found myself wishing for a small extension to the syntax of
> Haskell 'data' declarations.  It goes like this:
    ['where' clause to allow locally defined names in type declarations]

Nice.

Quite a few times I've found myself declaring type synonyms for this
reason, but you end up  polluting the global namespace.

+1 vote.

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