Monad of no `return` Proposal (MRP): Moving `return` out of `Monad`

Henrik Nilsson Henrik.Nilsson at nottingham.ac.uk
Sat Oct 3 10:02:17 UTC 2015


Hi all,

Bardur Arantsson wrote:

On 10/03/2015 10:06 AM, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
> C++ is what "success at all cost" looks like. (I won't bother responding
> to the rest, others have done that adequately.)

Haskell is at no risk of becoming like C++ in that respect either.

The point being made was just that the odd wart is not a big problem.
But breaking things without really compelling reasons is.

> Look, I truly[1] do appreciate the arguments in favor of "don't break
> things", but I don't think it's borne out by any reasonable reading of
> history.

Again, Graham and I were not saying "don't break things". We were saying
"if things are to be broken, then there had better be very compelling
reasons".

That's a big difference.

Best,

/Henrik

-- 
Henrik Nilsson
School of Computer Science
The University of Nottingham
nhn at cs.nott.ac.uk




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