Re: [Haskell-cafe] if-then-else as rebindable syntax (was Re: Why does Haskell have the if-then-else syntax?)

On 7/27/06, Doaitse Swierstra wrote:

In short: you will not make Haskell a lot more popular by attracting category theorists, but by making transitions from Java and C as smooth and surprise-free as possible (and this is already hard enough).

Actually, this is exactly my argument for wanting this feature in the language - only exchange Haskell for whatever DSL I want to embed in Haskell. :-) /Niklas