Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: 'par' - why has it the type a -> b -> b ?

On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 19:50 +0200, Achim Schneider wrote:

"Sean Leather" wrote:

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(\x y -> y)

*shudder*

I just can't stand such things.

What is it that you can't stand? Would you prefer "flip const"?

It's the missing "x" on the right side. Makes my internal C compiler ache.

(\ _ y -> y) Or fix your internal C compiler. jcc