[Haskell-cafe] Alternative name for return

[J. Stutterheim]

Hi Tarik,

Could you motivate the choice for these names? Thanks!

On 6 Aug 2013, at 08:14, Tarik ÖZKANLI <tozkanli2023 at gmail.com> wrote:

> next, carry, feed, roll
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> On 6 August 2013 08:37, KC <kc1956 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought a pure value was being returned from the monad. :)
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> 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
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> 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`.
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> 
> - Jurriën
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