Extending the do-notation
Sebastien Carlier
sebc@posse42.net
Sun, 7 Jan 2001 15:03:07 +0100
Sometimes I need to write code which looks like this:
> do x <- m1
> let y = unzip x
> ... -- never using x anymore
I thinks the following extension to do-notation would be useful:
> pat <- exp1 # exp2 ; exp3
would be rewritten as
> exp2 >>= ((\pat -> exp3) . exp1)
so that the above example could be rewritten more compactly:
> do y <- unzip # m1
I think the biggest problem with this extension is the choice
of a proper symbol.
Does this extension already exist ? (I only checked the Haskell 98
report).