[Haskell-cafe] Is "let" special?

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Mon Nov 1 21:44:12 EDT 2010


2010/11/2 Günther Schmidt <gue.schmidt at web.de>:
> Hi all,
>
> is there something special about "let"? I don't mean only its use in
> haskell, but in the general context of programming languages.

It means whatever the language specification/definition/implementation
says it means.  It's usually used for some kind of name binding
however (there might be some language theory definition of let, but I
wouldn't know).

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Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
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