[Haskell-cafe] "Assignment" in do blocks?

[Kim-Ee Yeoh]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Anupam Jain <ajnsit at gmail.com> wrote:

> What I'd like to do instead is something like -
>
>     let foo = bar foo
>
> But to Haskell this is a recursive definition instead of an update to
> the previous value.
>

This is a chestnut at least two years old. Last time I remember, the
discussion frothed under the rubric of "non-recursive let":

https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2013-July/109116.html

-- Kim-Ee
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