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

Vassil Ognyanov Keremidchiev varosi at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 19:07:36 UTC 2017


It's just helping clean up a bit words that doesn't have much meaning.
Currently GHCi in GHC 8 is supporting this, so you could write both:

x = 10
x <- return 10

Which is great!

2017-04-17 17:03 GMT+03:00 Sven Panne <svenpanne at gmail.com>:

> 2017-04-17 14:19 GMT+02:00 Adam Bergmark <adam at bergmark.nl>:
>
>> I just wanted to say that there is no need to apologize for making a
>> proposal!
>>
>
> +1 for that, and sorry if I sounded harsh, that wasn't my intention.
> Proposals are important (we need more of them, not less), and so are
> discussions about them. Nothing would be worse than a dead language nobody
> cares about...
>
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