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... 

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