Haskell 2020: 'let' to be optional and with wider scope of visibility, like other Haskell functions

[Adam Bergmark]

Hi Vassil,

I just wanted to say that there is no need to apologize for making a
proposal!

Cheers,
Adam


On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 at 00:57 Michael Walker <mike at barrucadu.co.uk> wrote:

> I feel that if people are confused about whether to use "let x = ..."
> or "x <- ...", changing the syntax to remove the "let" won't help.
>
> On 16 April 2017 at 21:32, Vassil Ognyanov Keremidchiev
> <varosi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > They are confused about when one should put "let x = ..." or "x <- ..."
> > mostly before they learn what is monad.
> >
> > 2017-04-16 21:15 GMT+03:00 Francesco Ariis <fa-ml at ariis.it>:
> >>
> >> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 08:21:43PM +0300, Vassil Ognyanov Keremidchiev
> >> wrote:
> >> > Okay, sorry for taking your time about those propositions. I'm just
> >> > thinking of ways for improving future Haskell. My feedback is mostly
> >> > from
> >> > talking with people and trying to teach them in Haskell.
> >>
> >> As others, I am not convinced with the proposal (given the amount of
> >> boxes marked "Translation" in the Haskell report, I wish we had a
> >> standard way to handling syntactic rewrites; it could come handy in
> >> yours and many more cases).
> >>
> >> But I am interested in newcomers and their introduction to the language:
> >> did they get confused by `let` or just pointed it out as superfluous?
> >>
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