I think this is doable, but you have to specify carefully
where those lambdas are inserted.
Where are they inserted in your suggestion?
It has to be a syntactic transformation, because using
type information would make it too complex in my opinion.
In my opinion, it's a useful feature, but I'm not
convinced it's useful enough to add to Haskell.
-- Lennart
Quoting Sebastian Sylvan
Are there any subtle reasons for why something like the following couldn't be allowed?
foo x y z w = ... bar x w = foo x _ _ w
I.e. a more flexible version of partial application. This would be translated too
bar x w = \y z -> foo x y z w
I.e a function which takes the "_" parameters in the same order they were encountered in the function application.
Some other languages allow this, such as Nemerle. Quite handy.
/S
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