Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 18:23 +0100, Brian Hulley wrote:
Therefore I propose:
\of
alts
which doesn't suffer this problem since the keyword "of" can never
follow a '\' in the existing grammar.
Or how about:
\case of
alts
which seems clearer to me.
Similarly, the keyword "case" can never follow a '\' in the existing
grammar.
Mind you, this doesn't seem to save much over
\x -> case x of
alts
It saves the writer using an explicit name which must be unique and the
reader determining that the name is not used deeper in the expressions.
(and a "->"). I tend to find myself wanting this after already having
written a 'case' and decided I don't need/want a name for the thing
being 'cased'. I wouldn't mind "case of", "\of" or "\case of", for
using it.
Allowing multiple arguments - is syntactically difficult to reconcile
with 'case' because it restricts what single-argument forms can be used?
Such as:
> case foo of Just n -> n
is allowed but
> f Just n = n
isn't.
Isaac
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