[Haskell-cafe] Re: Changing type of 'when'

[Maurí­cio]

>> ? It is easy for 'when' to ignore the result
>> of the first computation, and this would not
>> break existing code, and also save a lot of
>>  >> return ()s.
> 
> As Neil Mitchell pointed out[1], ignoring results implicitly may 
> indicate an error. Perhaps it's cleaner to define
> 
> ignore m = m >> return ()


But isn't exactly that the behavior of (>>)?

Anyway, I like the 'ignore' idea.

Best,
Maurício