Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-16 Thread Mikhail Vorozhtsov
Good news everyone. LambdaCase and MultiWayIf are now in HEAD. Thanks for participating in the final push! On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Mikhail Vorozhtsov mikhail.vorozht...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. After 21 months of occasional arguing the lambda-case proposal(s) is in danger of being

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-06 Thread Strake
On 05/07/2012, Mikhail Vorozhtsov mikhail.vorozht...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. After 21 months of occasional arguing the lambda-case proposal(s) is in danger of being buried under its own trac ticket comments. We need fresh blood to finally reach an agreement on the syntax. Read the wiki page[1],

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-06 Thread Chris Smith
Whoops, my earlier answer forgot to copy mailing lists... I would love to see \of, but I really don't think this is important enough to make case sometimes introduce layout and other times not. If it's going to obfuscate the lexical syntax like that, I'd rather just stick with \x-case x of. On

[Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-05 Thread Mikhail Vorozhtsov
Hi. After 21 months of occasional arguing the lambda-case proposal(s) is in danger of being buried under its own trac ticket comments. We need fresh blood to finally reach an agreement on the syntax. Read the wiki page[1], take a look at the ticket[2], vote and comment on the proposals!

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-05 Thread Christopher Done
I like \case as is proposed. It seems the least controversial one and there's curry (\case ) for two-args, but even that seems a rare case. For what it's worth, I like the idea of omission being partiality, as in case of and if then. It seems perfectly natural to me, I don't need a \ to tell me