28 Feb
2016
28 Feb
'16
11:37 p.m.
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 06:33:53PM -0500, Matt wrote:
This has come up before as 'ArgumentDo':
<goog_349057786> mailing list thread: Proposal: ArgumentDo <https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-September/009821.html> Relevant Phabricator ticket <https://phabricator.haskell.org/D1219> Reddit discussion <https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/447bnw/does_argument_do_have_a_future/>
Some people like it, though enough don't that the extension was abandoned.
I don't particularly like it, and I don't think I would use it, but what's the argument against it being admitted as an extension? There are far more hairy extensions in GHC already. Tom