[Haskell] Re: Top-level <-

George Russell ger at informatik.uni-bremen.de
Fri Nov 26 01:59:12 EST 2004


John Meacham wrote (snipped):
 > recursive top level declarations are no more tricky than are normal
 > recursive lets.

Perhaps I am missing something, but surely one very important problem with
<- at top level is that calling for the value of something defined by <-
causes the corresponding action to be performed?  Unless the actions available
are very tightly restricted, this means that for example the meaning of a
program depends on what order arguments to a pure functions are evaluated,
for example.


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