# Why not implicit parameters?

**URL:** <https://discourse.haskell.org/t/why-not-implicit-parameters/10247>\
**Category:** Learn\
**Created:** [August 29, 2024, 2:25am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/why-not-implicit-parameters/10247 "2024-08-29T02:25:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ambrose](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/ambrose/32/5672_2.png) [@Ambrose](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/Ambrose)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 5:51am UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/why-not-implicit-parameters/10247/4 "2024-08-29T05:51:12Z")

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[That blog post is so bad.](http://discourse.haskell.org/t/my-talk-functional-programming-failed-successfully-is-now-available/9725/70)

[It actually doesn’t even hold up when loaded into ghci in 2024.](http://discourse.haskell.org/t/my-talk-functional-programming-failed-successfully-is-now-available/9725/71) Sorry the author wrote Bad Code and drew conclusions from their own mistake.

`-XImplicitParams` is a perfectly useful extension if you read the tin. Understand it, and you’ll find uses. It’s better than `ReaderT` in some situations.

ooooor you can just listen to people with blogs - up to you 😁

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