#13855: Syntactic sugar to write the recursion in GHC -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: vanto | Owner: (none) Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.0.2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by vanto): Wearing the hair shirt\\ A retrospective on Haskell\\ Simon Peyton Jones\\ Microsoft Research, Cambridge\\ POPL’03 meeting\\ In the paragraph named {{{Syntax}}} he said:\\ {{{ Syntactic redundancy ... Haskell's choice: provide multiple ways, and let the programmer decide ... }}} And look what he's saying about the difference between {{{declaration style}}} vs {{{expression style}}} -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13855#comment:2 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler