Yes, and yes :)

For example:

import Data.Char

main = do
let prompt s = do
      putStrLn s
      getLine
firstName <- prompt "What's your first name?"
lastName <- prompt "What's your last name?"
let bigFirstName = map toUpper firstName
      bigLastName = map toUpper lastName
putStrLn $ "hey " ++ bigFirstName ++ " " ++ bigLastName ++ ", how are you?"

- Job

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:40 PM, michael rice <nowgate@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Learn You a Haskell

===================

Remember let bindings? If you don't, refresh your memory on them by reading this section. They have to be in the form of let bindings in expression, where bindings are names to be given to expressions and expression is the expression that is to be evaluated that sees them. We also said that in list comprehensions, the in part isn't needed. Well, you can use them in do blocks pretty much like you use them in list comprehensions. Check this out:

import Data.Char

    main = do
      putStrLn "What's your first name?"
      firstName <- getLine
      putStrLn "What's your last name?"
      lastName <- getLine
      let bigFirstName = map toUpper firstName
          bigLastName = map toUpper lastName
      putStrLn $ "hey " ++ bigFirstName ++ " " ++ bigLastName ++ ", how are you?"

===================

Questions:

1) Is there an implicit *in* before the last line above?

2) Within a do "in" the IO monad (or any other monad), can a *let* do something like this?

      let x = do -- in a different monad

Michael

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