Syntax for implicit parameters

Simon Marlow simonmar@microsoft.com
Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:37:24 +0100


> [Incidentally, if I did control Hugs, I wouldn't make the suggested
> change to "dlet"/"with" at this point.  Marcin says I have no "deep
> reasons" ... Hmm, I don't know about "deep", but I do have reasons
> for this, both technical and pragmatic.  But I'm not going to go into
> detail because I don't think it will serve any useful purpose, and
> because, if I'm going to let go, then I really do have to let go ...]

Mark - I think the reason that you're being asked to comment on this
discussion is because we'd like to know what these reasons are!  It
would be a pity if us implementors made a unilateral decision on syntax
that ended up being misguided.

Cheers,
	Simon