I can honestly say that I haven't felt much pain from the status quo regarding this. Most of the time my code is structured so that case statements don't appear in do blocks. When they do, I don't see it as a big issue. The special case for operator - is a bigger wart on haskell syntax than this, imo.
I would vote in favor of keeping the language simple. I do like the idea of generalizing lambda functions to include multiple cases, however.
On the other hand, I almost never use lambdas now since named functions yield better "self-documenting" code.
--jonathan
On Oct 8, 2010 8:09 AM, "Peter Wortmann" <scpmw@leeds.ac.uk> wrote:Yes, that's what I meant. Thanks for describing it properly.
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 01:13 +0300, Lauri Alanko wrote:
> Your "general" rule doesn't subsume your ...
This is roughly what I meant with "abused": Where "C" is very complex,
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 05:41 -0700, Nicolas Pouillard wrote:
> Imagine find this code:
>
> do s1
> ...
it might become non-obvious where exactly the monad actions are supposed
to happen. Hence such traps when refactoring.
Also of note: Just moving sub-expressions around isn't something that is
guaranteed to be save. Introducing new names and using them in "s2"
would be problematic, for example:
do map (\x -> (<- putStrLn x)) ["a", "b"]
Obviously can't be made to work. You might have to check for this - or
maybe even disallow the shorthand inside lamdbas and lets. Might be less
satisfying to have such special cases, but it is still a good bit more
general than what is available right now.
Greetings,
Peter Wortmann
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