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   1. Re:  How do I use Guards in record syntax? (Kim-Ee Yeoh)


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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:22:13 +0700
From: Kim-Ee Yeoh <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] How do I use Guards in record syntax?
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Dimitri DeFigueiredo <
[email protected]> wrote:

>     oldbuysell :: String  -- "buy", "sell" or ""


Why is this String when you've defined the perfectly cromulent BuyOrSell
datatype?

How can you be sure there won't be some accidental buggy code that sets the
field to "buyy"?

-- Kim-Ee
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