I'd be really interested in learning the rationale behind those changes. I'm sure it wasn't done for capricious or arbitrary reasons, but I can't help but see it as a step back. --Jonathan Geddes (sent from android mobile) On Dec 21, 2010 8:47 AM, "Lauri Alanko" wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 08:31:08AM -0700, Jonathan Geddes wrote:

I'd love for the compiler to give... You will be interested to know that everything you ask for already was in Haskell ages ago:

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/references/haskell/haskell-report-1.4-html/exps... They decided to get rid of it in Haskell 98, for reasons that someone else can probably explain. Lauri _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org ...