[Haskell-cafe] Alternative name for return

[Christian Sternagel]

Dear Jurriën.

personally, I like "lift" (which is of course already occupied in 
Haskell), since an arbitrary value is "lifted" into a monad. (The 
literature sometimes uses "unit".)

cheers

chris

On 08/06/2013 02:14 PM, J. Stutterheim wrote:
> Dear Cafe,
>
>
> Suppose we now have the opportunity to change the name of the `return` function in Monad, what would be a "better"  name for it? (for some definition of better)
>
> N.B. I am _not_ proposing that we actually change the name of `return`. I do currently have the opportunity to pick names for common functions in a non-Haskell related project, so I was wondering if there perhaps is a better name for `return`.
>
>
> - Jurriën
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