SYNTAX ONLY

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From: fplangc-request@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Date: 23 Apr 91 11:08
Sender: Cordelia V Hall <cvh@cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
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Subject: SYNTAX ONLY

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As far as WHERE is concerned:

The fact that WHERE is top down is so valuable that I think we should not
throw that advantage away. We've accepted two ways of writing functions 
(function binding and lambda) and we have if as well as guards. Each of these
has its place, and it would be inconsistent to get rid of where.


As far as list comprehensions are concerned:

Why use 'for'? This is used to mean something very different in languages such
as Fortran and Pascal. Otherwise, this looks like a good idea to me.

I vote for [0] - using FOR (with a better key word) but keeping things
otherwise as they are.

Cordy