On Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 8:46:42 AM UTC-6, Peter Damoc wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Robin Heggelund Hansen < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> The proposal, as the title of the post suggests, is to rename the >> "case..of" expression to "match..with". >> > > One added benefit that I'm seeing is that today, if I would have to > describe "case...of", I would use the words "pattern matching". :) > > I wonder if this has been discussed before. I did a quick search but > nothing jumped out as relevant. > > > case..of to match..with renaming could be handled by elm-format. > > in theory, yes, it could be handled by a tool like elm-format but in > practice, in order for it to be effective, it should be handled by > something that is part of the elm-platform. > this kind of a mechanical replacement would be OK if it would be handled > right away and in an official manner. > requiring installing extra tools that come with alpha warnings might be > scary. >
If this were done (plenty of other precedence, OCaml uses `match ... with` too), there could be a deprecation period where both are supported and `case ... of` generated deprecation warnings... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
