I thought a pure value was being returned from the monad. :)
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Christian Sternagel <c.sterna...@gmail.com>wrote: > Dear Jurriën. > > personally, I like "lift" (which is of course already occupied in > Haskell), since an arbitrary value is "lifted" into a monad. (The > literature sometimes uses "unit".) > > cheers > > chris > > > On 08/06/2013 02:14 PM, J. Stutterheim wrote: > >> Dear Cafe, >> >> >> Suppose we now have the opportunity to change the name of the `return` >> function in Monad, what would be a "better" name for it? (for some >> definition of better) >> >> N.B. I am _not_ proposing that we actually change the name of `return`. I >> do currently have the opportunity to pick names for common functions in a >> non-Haskell related project, so I was wondering if there perhaps is a >> better name for `return`. >> >> >> - Jurriën >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/**mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe<http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe> >> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/**mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe<http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe> > -- -- Regards, KC
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