On Jul 22, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Andreas Abel
On 20.07.13 9:36 PM, Evan Laforge wrote:
However, I'm also not agitating for a non-recursive let, I think that ship has sailed. Besides, if it were added people would start wondering about non-recursive where, and it would introduce an exception to haskell's pretty consistently order-independent declaration style.
For functions, recursive-by-default let makes sense. But for *values*, intended recursion is rather the exception. It is useful for infinite lists and the like. For values of atomic type like Int or Bool, recursive let is a bug.
It seems hard to distinguish between them. What about values that contain functions, like data T = T Int (Int -> Int)? What about polymorphic values, that could be functions and could be not?