David Roundy wrote: > Several times since reading the beginning of this discussion I've wished I > had the new syntax so I could write something like: > > do if predicateOnFileContents (<- readFile "foo") then ... > > instead of either > > do contents <- readFile "foo" > if predicateOnFileContents contents then ... > > or (as you'd prefer) > > readFile "foo" >>= \contents -> > if predicateOnFileContents contents then ...
Isn't this problem, namely being forced to name intermediate results, also solved by some sort of idiom bracket sugar, maybe together with the lambda case proposal? I would prefer both very much to the proposed (<- action) syntax for the same reasons that e.g. Jules Bean nicely summarized. Cheers Ben _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
