| Sorry, I should also mention implicit parameters, if you're willing to use | that extension. I don't like them, though, and my impression from SPJ is | that it's very unclear whether they will get into Haskell 2 or not... It's *linear* implicit parameters that are a weird beast. Ordinary implicit parameters are quite well behaved. Having said that, there is no Haskell 2 process at the moment... Simon
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
| Sorry, I should also mention implicit parameters, if you're willing to use | that extension. I don't like them, though, and my impression from SPJ is | that it's very unclear whether they will get into Haskell 2 or not...
I wrote a short paper on this very topic, comparing alternative solutions. I ended up favouring implicit parameters. If you want to read it, it's at http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Globals.ps John
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