Quoth Cale Gibbard:
> Personally I don't see why everyone appears to prefer the syntax with
> \ in it over just the obvious case section syntax which was originally
> proposed.
>
> case of { ... }
...
> Does anyone else agree?
Yes. I don't see this as an `anonymous function' in any special sense,
only inasmuch as the workaround in its absence involves one. I.e., if
I for some reason had been compelled to write
\ a -> hPutStrLn stdout a
... that wouldn't make "hPutStrLn stdout" an anonymous function in my book.
Neither is `case of ...' an anonymous function, or functions.
Donn
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