Re: bad pattern-matching

[Ian Poole]

>       ..........
>       
>       But I do not want to program without using the
>       well-known advantages of such patterns:
>       
>       - increased readability
>       - distinct left-hand-sides

Personally I find the second form (ie without n+k patterns) the easier 
to read, and I've never quite understood why n in (n+k) should match
only non-negative integers.

Ian