> Hello,
> 
> Recently, I came accross this
> expression:
> [ x + y | x <- xs | y <- ys ]
> 
> As far as I can see (Haskell Report),
> this is not allowed by the haskell 98
> standard. So I assume it to be an ex-
> tension. Where can I find information
> about this?
This is a parallel list comprehension, a GHC extension. See 
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/syntax-extns.html#PA
RALLEL-LIST-COMPREHENSIONS
for more info. The code above does the same as zipWith (+) xs ys, basically.


Cheers, Jan
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