[Haskell-cafe] Question: Do block precedence

[Tom Ellis]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 06:33:53PM -0500, Matt wrote:
> This has come up before as 'ArgumentDo':
> 
> <goog_349057786>
> mailing list thread: Proposal: ArgumentDo
> <https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-September/009821.html>
> Relevant Phabricator ticket <https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1219>
> Reddit discussion
> <https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/447bnw/does_argument_do_have_a_future/>
> 
> Some people like it, though enough don't that the extension was abandoned.

I don't particularly like it, and I don't think I would use it, but what's
the argument against it being admitted as an extension?  There are far more
hairy extensions in GHC already.

Tom