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I weakly agree, having been frustrated by both sides of the issue.



I really wish Haskell used `let rec`. It's really easy to accidentally write an infinite loop when all lets are rec, but if you forget the rec you almost certainly will get a name or type error.

Maybe I'd hate it after a day, but I think I wouldn't.


In my experience, both errors happen rarely, but both happen, and unintended-rec is much harder to track down.




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