Haskell puzzle

Rishiyur S. Nikhil nikhil@acm.org
Mon, 16 Oct 2000 01:21:39 -0700


In Haskell, is the following transformation always legal?

    \x->\y->e     transforms to    \x y->e

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What if the two lambda-bound variables are the same?  I.e., the lhs is

    \x->\x->e

Please refer to Section 3.3 of the Haskell 98 Report, para 3 (one line
para).