[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE slot-lambda

[Alois Cochard]

I just want to add that I find the syntax extremely confusing and counter
intuitive.

I thought it was just me, or that I was missed something. But it looks like
I'm not the only one.


On 7 April 2014 21:58, Kim-Ee Yeoh <ky3 at atamo.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 11:02 PM, ducis <ducis_cn at 126.com> wrote:
>
>> It lets your write lambdas with 'slots' without inventing names for the
>> parameters.
>>
>> [s| ı + ı |]  =  \x y -> x+y
>>
>>
> I have no background in this 'slot lambda' and a search reveals this
> package as the only hit.
>
> Which may explain why I find the example given confusing. Why would [s|
> 1+1 |] not be equivalent to \x->x+x ?
>
>
>
> -- Kim-Ee
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