That is what I meant. I will often use this pattern as follows:
orSomething : Maybe String -> String
orSomething str =
case str of
Just str -> str
Nothing -> "something"
I realize, though, that I misunderstood the original question.
On Monday, December 5, 2016 at 3:25:07 PM UTC-5, Duane Johnson wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 6:53 PM, David Andrews <[email protected]
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> I expect that you are actually looking to do something like this:
>> let
>> x = 1
>> in
>> case something of
>> Just x -> ...
>> Nothing -> ...
>>
>
> David, are you sure you didn't mean the following?
>
> case something of
>
> Just 1 -> ...
>
> Nothing -> ...
>
>
> It seems strange to include a shadowed variable `x` as in your expected
> code.
>
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