[Haskell-cafe] Alternative name for return

[KC]

I thought a pure value was being returned from the monad. :)


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Christian Sternagel
<c.sternagel at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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KC
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