bracket_

2001-10-14 Thread Ken Shan
In Haskell's standard IO module, bracket_ is defined to have type IO a -> (a -> IO b) -> IO c -> IO c However, in the Exception module in hslibs, bracket_ has type IO a -> IO b -> IO c -> IO c which IMHO is much less useful, not to mention confusing. Could this be considered a bug? -

Re: macros. Was: Arrow notation, etc.

2001-10-14 Thread Fergus Henderson
On 12-Oct-2001, Jerzy Karczmarczuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They [macros] are heavily used in Clean, so, there *are* people > who see a need for them in a lazy language. Well, that depends on what you mean by "macros". Clean's "macros" have essentially the same semantics as inline functio

Re: Namespaces (was Re: GUI Library Task Force)

2001-10-14 Thread John Hughes
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Re: read-ing scientific notation

2001-10-14 Thread Jon Fairbairn
> > The lexical syntax says that > > 10e3 > > means > > 10 e3 > > (i.e. two lexemes). I don't like this choice, and it could be "fixed" > > in the Revised H98 report. > > What is the likelihood of anyone *intentionally* writing an integer > abutted directly with a varid, followed direct