I'm all for making Haskell easy for beginners, but as Simon points out,
this change shouldn't really affect them. Since I'm also a fan of using
Haskell as the host for embedded DSL's, I think this would be a good
addition, since it provides more flexibility with the syntax.
-Paul
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
Just to be clear, to get rebindable syntax in GHC today, you have to ask
for it explicitly, via
-fno-implicit-prelude
If you use that flag, you'd better know what it means. It already means
that do-notation uses whatever (>>) and (>>=) are in scope, not
Control.Monad.(>>) etc. This if-thing is just another example.
No beginner will encounter this complication; they'd have to ask for it.
Simon
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