Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help (fwd)

2012-07-19 Thread Henning Thielemann
I want to vote, too. I am ok with all of case of \case \of \case of For me single arguments are enough. We already have this restriction for 'case' and I can work around it simply by wrapping arguments in pairs temporarily (cf. curry $ \case ...). I vote against LambdaIf, since

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-16 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Freitag, den 13.07.2012, 13:40 +0100 schrieb Ross Paterson: Remember that there is a \ in arrow notation in addition to proc. So one might expect any abbreviation for \x - case x of {...} to mean the same \ thing in arrow notation too. I completely agree. I had forgotten about the \ in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-16 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Montag, den 16.07.2012, 21:26 +0300 schrieb Wolfgang Jeltsch: Am Freitag, den 13.07.2012, 13:40 +0100 schrieb Ross Paterson: Remember that there is a \ in arrow notation in addition to proc. So one might expect any abbreviation for \x - case x of {...} to mean the same \ thing in arrow

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-16 Thread Mikhail Vorozhtsov
Good news everyone. LambdaCase and MultiWayIf are now in HEAD. Thanks for participating in the final push! On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Mikhail Vorozhtsov mikhail.vorozht...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. After 21 months of occasional arguing the lambda-case proposal(s) is in danger of being

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-13 Thread Daniel Trstenjak
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 03:13:42PM -0400, Cale Gibbard wrote: There are of course already lots of ways to create functions which don't involve \ Well, I think it should be clear that we're talking here about anonymous functions. We're not exactly talking about function definitions, so much

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-13 Thread Jon Fairbairn
Mikhail Vorozhtsov mikhail.vorozht...@gmail.com writes: Hi. After 21 months of occasional arguing the lambda-case proposal(s) is in danger of being buried under its own trac ticket comments. We need fresh blood to finally reach an agreement on the syntax. Read the wiki page[1], take a look

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-13 Thread Mikhail Vorozhtsov
On 07/05/2012 09:42 PM, Mikhail Vorozhtsov wrote: Hi. After 21 months of occasional arguing the lambda-case proposal(s) is in danger of being buried under its own trac ticket comments. We need fresh blood to finally reach an agreement on the syntax. Read the wiki page[1], take a look at the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-13 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Donnerstag, den 12.07.2012, 13:38 -0400 schrieb 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 { ... } looks much better to me than \case of { ... } and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-13 Thread Ross Paterson
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 01:21:25PM +0100, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: I’m strongly opposed to the case of { ... } syntax, because there seems to be no natural arrow expression analog of it. A notation that starts with \ (like “\case”) can be carried over to arrow expressions by

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-13 Thread Gábor Lehel
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Cale Gibbard cgibb...@gmail.com wrote: 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 { ... } looks much better to me than \case of { ... }

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-13 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Gábor Lehel illiss...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Cale Gibbard cgibb...@gmail.com wrote: case of { ... } looks much better to me than \case of { ... } I also completely agree, but I don't want my opinion to get in the way of

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-12 Thread Mikhail Vorozhtsov
On 07/12/2012 04:27 AM, Iavor Diatchki wrote: Hello, I am late to the discussion and this is not entirely on topic, for which I apologize, but I like the multi-branch case syntax someone mentioned earlier: Writing: case | p1 - e1 | p2 - e2 | ... desugars to: case () of _

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-12 Thread 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 { ... } looks much better to me than \case of { ... } and the former makes sense to me as a simple extension of operator sections to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-12 Thread Daniel Trstenjak
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:38:56PM -0400, Cale Gibbard wrote: 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. I don't think that the 'case section syntax' is obvious, because I don't see the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-12 Thread Cale Gibbard
There are of course already lots of ways to create functions which don't involve \ I mentioned sections (like (+1) desugaring to (\x - x + 1)) already, and of course, one can partially apply or compose and transform other functions without explicit lambdas. We're not exactly talking about

Common syntax for casing/matching (Re[2]: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help)

2012-07-12 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello wagnerdm, Thursday, July 5, 2012, 7:22:38 PM, you wrote: After 21 months of occasional arguing the lambda-case proposal(s) is this reminded me old joke about PL/I: camel is the horse created by committee i propose to return back and summarize all the requirements we have in this area.

Re: Common syntax for casing/matching (Re[2]: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help)

2012-07-12 Thread Twan van Laarhoven
On 2012-07-12 23:48, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: another interesting feature may be ruby-style matching defined by execution of special function `match` instead of pattern matching: switch var of 1+1 - print var==2 [5..10] - print var in [5..10] (20) - print var20 where (var `match`

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-12 Thread John Lask
On 13/07/2012 3:08 AM, Cale Gibbard wrote: 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 { ... } looks much better to me than \case of { ... } and the former makes sense to me as

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-11 Thread Iavor Diatchki
Hello, I am late to the discussion and this is not entirely on topic, for which I apologize, but I like the multi-branch case syntax someone mentioned earlier: Writing: case | p1 - e1 | p2 - e2 | ... desugars to: case () of _ | p1 - e2 | p2 - e2 | ... -Iavor PS: I

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-10 Thread Mikhail Vorozhtsov
On 07/10/2012 01:09 AM, Bardur Arantsson wrote: On 07/09/2012 06:01 PM, Mikhail Vorozhtsov wrote: On 07/09/2012 09:52 PM, Twan van Laarhoven wrote: On 09/07/12 14:44, Simon Marlow wrote: I now think '\' is too quiet to introduce a new layout context. The pressing need is really for a

RE: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-10 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| I strongly favor a solution where lambda-case expressions start with \, | because this can be generalized to proc expressions from arrow syntax | simply by replacing the \ with proc. | | Take, for example, the following function definition: | | f (Left x) = g x | f (Right y) = h y |

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-10 Thread Mikhail Vorozhtsov
On 07/10/2012 01:53 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | I strongly favor a solution where lambda-case expressions start with \, | because this can be generalized to proc expressions from arrow syntax | simply by replacing the \ with proc. | | Take, for example, the following function definition: | |

RE: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-10 Thread Donn Cave
I think it's very helpful if lambdas start with a lambda, which to me suggests \case. I'd be interested to hear that explained a little further. To me it isn't obvious that `case of' is `a lambda', but it's obvious enough what it is and how it works (or would work) - it's `case' with type a -

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-10 Thread Simon Marlow
On 09/07/2012 17:32, Mikhail Vorozhtsov wrote: On 07/09/2012 09:49 PM, Simon Marlow wrote: On 09/07/2012 15:04, Mikhail Vorozhtsov wrote: and respectively \case P1, P2 - ... P3, P4 - ... as sugar for \x y - case x, y of P1, P2 - ... P3, P4 - ... That looks a bit strange to me,

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-10 Thread Simon Marlow
On 10/07/2012 07:33, Mikhail Vorozhtsov wrote: On 07/10/2012 01:09 AM, Bardur Arantsson wrote: On 07/09/2012 06:01 PM, Mikhail Vorozhtsov wrote: On 07/09/2012 09:52 PM, Twan van Laarhoven wrote: On 09/07/12 14:44, Simon Marlow wrote: I now think '\' is too quiet to introduce a new layout

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-10 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Dienstag, den 10.07.2012, 08:53 +0100 schrieb Simon Marlow: On 09/07/2012 17:32, Mikhail Vorozhtsov wrote: Would you still expect tuples for \case if you didn't see the way `case x, y of ...` was implemented (or thought that it is a primitive construct)? Yes, I still think it's

RE: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-10 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Dienstag, den 10.07.2012, 06:53 + schrieb Simon Peyton-Jones: I strongly favor a solution where lambda-case expressions start with \, because this can be generalized to proc expressions from arrow syntax simply by replacing the \ with proc. […] I think it's very helpful if

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-10 Thread Chris Smith
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Wolfgang Jeltsch g9ks1...@acme.softbase.org wrote: If we use \case for functions, we should use proc case for arrows; if we use \of for functions, we should use proc of for arrows. By the way, is proc a layout herald already? No, proc is not a layout herald.

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-09 Thread Simon Marlow
On 07/07/2012 05:08, Tyson Whitehead wrote: PS: To be fully precise, the modified layout decoder in 9.3 would be L (n:ts) i (m:ms) = ; : (L ts n (m:ms)) if m = n = } : (L (n:ts) n ms) if n m L (n:ts) i ms = L ts n ms L ({n}:n:ts) i ms = {

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-09 Thread Simon Marlow
On 07/07/2012 16:07, Strake wrote: On 07/07/2012, Jonas Almström Duregård jonas.dureg...@chalmers.se wrote: Couldn't we use \\ for multi-case lambdas with layout? If not, these are my preferences in order (all are single argument versions): 1: Omission: case of. There seems to be some support

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-09 Thread Mikhail Vorozhtsov
Hi Simon. On 07/09/2012 08:23 PM, Simon Marlow wrote: On 07/07/2012 16:07, Strake wrote: On 07/07/2012, Jonas Almström Duregård jonas.dureg...@chalmers.se wrote: Couldn't we use \\ for multi-case lambdas with layout? If not, these are my preferences in order (all are single argument

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-09 Thread Simon Marlow
On 09/07/2012 15:04, Mikhail Vorozhtsov wrote: Hi Simon. On 07/09/2012 08:23 PM, Simon Marlow wrote: On 07/07/2012 16:07, Strake wrote: On 07/07/2012, Jonas Almström Duregård jonas.dureg...@chalmers.se wrote: Couldn't we use \\ for multi-case lambdas with layout? If not, these are my

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-09 Thread Twan van Laarhoven
On 09/07/12 14:44, Simon Marlow wrote: I now think '\' is too quiet to introduce a new layout context. The pressing need is really for a combination of '\' and 'case', that is single-argument so that we don't have to write parentheses. I think '\case' does the job perfectly. If you want a

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-09 Thread Mikhail Vorozhtsov
On 07/09/2012 09:52 PM, Twan van Laarhoven wrote: On 09/07/12 14:44, Simon Marlow wrote: I now think '\' is too quiet to introduce a new layout context. The pressing need is really for a combination of '\' and 'case', that is single-argument so that we don't have to write parentheses. I think

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-09 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Samstag, den 07.07.2012, 00:08 -0400 schrieb Tyson Whitehead: I've thought some more about this and it seems to me that there are two ways people might intuitively think about doing grouping via indentation. 1 - the first item is on the same line and subsequent ones are lined up with

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-09 Thread Chris Smith
Right, it seems to me that there are basically three reasonable proposals here: 1. \ of with multiple arguments. This is consistent with existing layout, and seems like a nice generalization of lambda syntax. 2. case of with a single argument. This is consistent with existing layout, and seems

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-09 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Montag, den 09.07.2012, 21:04 +0700 schrieb Mikhail Vorozhtsov: Could you express your opinion on the case comma sugar, i.e. case x, y of P1, P2 - ... P3, P4 - ... as sugar for case (# x, y #) of (# P1, P2 #) - ... (# P3, P4 #) - ... and respectively \case

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-09 Thread Mikhail Vorozhtsov
On 07/09/2012 09:49 PM, Simon Marlow wrote: On 09/07/2012 15:04, Mikhail Vorozhtsov wrote: Hi Simon. On 07/09/2012 08:23 PM, Simon Marlow wrote: On 07/07/2012 16:07, Strake wrote: On 07/07/2012, Jonas Almström Duregård jonas.dureg...@chalmers.se wrote: Couldn't we use \\ for multi-case

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-09 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Montag, den 09.07.2012, 10:20 -0600 schrieb Chris Smith: Right, it seems to me that there are basically three reasonable proposals here: 1. \ of with multiple arguments. This is consistent with existing layout, and seems like a nice generalization of lambda syntax. 2. case of with a

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-09 Thread Mikhail Vorozhtsov
On 07/09/2012 11:22 PM, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Am Montag, den 09.07.2012, 21:04 +0700 schrieb Mikhail Vorozhtsov: Could you express your opinion on the case comma sugar, i.e. case x, y of P1, P2 - ... P3, P4 - ... as sugar for case (# x, y #) of (# P1, P2 #) - ... (# P3, P4

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-09 Thread Bardur Arantsson
On 07/09/2012 06:01 PM, Mikhail Vorozhtsov wrote: On 07/09/2012 09:52 PM, Twan van Laarhoven wrote: On 09/07/12 14:44, Simon Marlow wrote: I now think '\' is too quiet to introduce a new layout context. The pressing need is really for a combination of '\' and 'case', that is single-argument

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-09 Thread Wolfram Kahl
On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 07:22:30PM +0300, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Although I wasn’t asked, I want to express my opinion. I think, the use of the comma is strange. When declaring functions with multiple arguments, we don’t have commas: f Nothing y = y f (Just x) y = x In lambda

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-07 Thread Jonas Almström Duregård
Couldn't we use \\ for multi-case lambdas with layout? If not, these are my preferences in order (all are single argument versions): 1: Omission: case of. There seems to be some support for this but it was not included in the summary. 2: Omission with clarification: \case of 3: \of - but I think

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-07 Thread wagnerdm
Quoting Jonas Almström Duregård jonas.dureg...@chalmers.se: Couldn't we use \\ for multi-case lambdas with layout? Actually, \\ is a valid (infix) function name... and the base library includes one in Data.List. That name is copied in several other container interfaces, as well. ~d

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-07 Thread Strake
On 07/07/2012, Jonas Almström Duregård jonas.dureg...@chalmers.se wrote: Couldn't we use \\ for multi-case lambdas with layout? If not, these are my preferences in order (all are single argument versions): 1: Omission: case of. There seems to be some support for this but it was not included

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-07 Thread Tyson Whitehead
On July 7, 2012 00:08:26 Tyson Whitehead wrote: The very limited scope of this (i.e., it would only apply to lines that end with a grouping construct where the next line is indented further than that line) should also address Simon's concerns regarding things like f x y = x + y

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-07 Thread Dan Doel
If we're voting I think \of is all right, and multi-argument case could be handy, which rules out using 'case of' for lambda case, because it's the syntax for a 0-argument case: case of | guard1 - ... | guard2 - ... Then multi-argument lambda case could use the comma syntax

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-06 Thread Mikhail Vorozhtsov
On 07/06/2012 05:47 AM, Donn Cave wrote: The `multi-clause lambda' seems more elegant, if the syntactical problems could be worked out. I mean, unnamed functions are thus just like named functions, something that you'd probably think to try just as soon as you needed the feature. I don't

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-06 Thread Mikhail Vorozhtsov
On 07/05/2012 10:22 PM, wagne...@seas.upenn.edu wrote: Quoting Mikhail Vorozhtsov mikhail.vorozht...@gmail.com: After 21 months of occasional arguing the lambda-case proposal(s) is in danger of being buried under its own trac ticket comments. We need fresh blood to finally reach an agreement

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-06 Thread Edward Kmett
Oh, neat. I guess it does. :) I'll hack that into my grammar when I get into work tomorrow. My main point with that observation is it cleanly allows for multiple argument \of without breaking the intuition you get from how of already works/looks or requiring you to refactor subsequent lines,

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-06 Thread Mikhail Vorozhtsov
On 07/06/2012 02:31 AM, Tyson Whitehead wrote: On July 5, 2012 10:42:53 Mikhail Vorozhtsov wrote: After 21 months of occasional arguing the lambda-case proposal(s) is in danger of being buried under its own trac ticket comments. We need fresh blood to finally reach an agreement on the syntax.

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-06 Thread Mikhail Vorozhtsov
On 07/05/2012 09:42 PM, Mikhail Vorozhtsov wrote: Hi. After 21 months of occasional arguing the lambda-case proposal(s) is in danger of being buried under its own trac ticket comments. We need fresh blood to finally reach an agreement on the syntax. Read the wiki page[1], take a look at the

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-06 Thread Edward Kmett
Twan, The 0-ary version you proposed actually works even nicer with \of. foo'' = case () of () | quux - ... | quaffle - ... | otherwise - ... Starting from the above legal haskell multi-way if, we can, switch to foo' = case of | quux - ... | quaffle - ... | otherwise - ...

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-06 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
Christopher Done chrisd...@gmail.com writes: P.S. \if then … else …? btw, http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/If-then-else ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-06 Thread Simon Marlow
On 05/07/2012 20:31, Tyson Whitehead wrote: On July 5, 2012 10:42:53 Mikhail Vorozhtsov wrote: After 21 months of occasional arguing the lambda-case proposal(s) is in danger of being buried under its own trac ticket comments. We need fresh blood to finally reach an agreement on the syntax. Read

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-06 Thread Tyson Whitehead
On July 6, 2012 05:25:15 Simon Marlow wrote: Why not just let enclosed scopes be less indented than their outer ones? Let me be entirely clear about what I was thinking about. The third case for the layout mapping in Section 9.3 of the report is L ({n}:ts) (m:ms) = { : (L ts

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-06 Thread Strake
On 05/07/2012, Mikhail Vorozhtsov mikhail.vorozht...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. After 21 months of occasional arguing the lambda-case proposal(s) is in danger of being buried under its own trac ticket comments. We need fresh blood to finally reach an agreement on the syntax. Read the wiki page[1],

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-06 Thread Chris Smith
Whoops, my earlier answer forgot to copy mailing lists... I would love to see \of, but I really don't think this is important enough to make case sometimes introduce layout and other times not. If it's going to obfuscate the lexical syntax like that, I'd rather just stick with \x-case x of. On

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-06 Thread Tyson Whitehead
On July 6, 2012 11:49:23 Tyson Whitehead wrote: Currently it depends on the depth of this new level of indentation relative to all the groupings started on that line. I think most people would expect it to just apply to the last grouping though. That is where { f x = do { stmt1 stmt2

Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-05 Thread Mikhail Vorozhtsov
Hi. After 21 months of occasional arguing the lambda-case proposal(s) is in danger of being buried under its own trac ticket comments. We need fresh blood to finally reach an agreement on the syntax. Read the wiki page[1], take a look at the ticket[2], vote and comment on the proposals!

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-05 Thread wagnerdm
Quoting Mikhail Vorozhtsov mikhail.vorozht...@gmail.com: After 21 months of occasional arguing the lambda-case proposal(s) is in danger of being buried under its own trac ticket comments. We need fresh blood to finally reach an agreement on the syntax. Read the wiki page[1], take a look at

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-05 Thread Christopher Done
I like \case as is proposed. It seems the least controversial one and there's curry (\case ) for two-args, but even that seems a rare case. For what it's worth, I like the idea of omission being partiality, as in case of and if then. It seems perfectly natural to me, I don't need a \ to tell me

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-05 Thread Felipe Almeida Lessa
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Christopher Done chrisd...@gmail.com wrote: I like \case as is proposed. It seems the least controversial one and there's curry (\case ) for two-args, but even that seems a rare case. For what it's worth, I like the idea of omission being partiality, as in

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-05 Thread Twan van Laarhoven
On 05/07/12 17:22, wagne...@seas.upenn.edu wrote: Well, for what it's worth, my vote goes for a multi-argument \case. I find the comment on the wiki page about mistyping \case Just x instead of \case (Just x) a lot a bit disingenuous, since you already need these parens with today's lambda.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-05 Thread Gábor Lehel
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Christopher Done chrisd...@gmail.com wrote: I like \case as is proposed. It seems the least controversial one and there's curry (\case ) for two-args, but even that seems a rare case. For what it's worth, I like the idea of omission being partiality, as in case

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-05 Thread wagnerdm
Quoting wagne...@seas.upenn.edu: Well, for what it's worth, my vote goes for a multi-argument \case. I Just saw a proposal for \of on the reddit post about this. That's even better, since: 1. it doesn't change the list of block heralds 2. it doesn't mention case, and therefore multi-arg

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-05 Thread Tyson Whitehead
On July 5, 2012 10:42:53 Mikhail Vorozhtsov wrote: After 21 months of occasional arguing the lambda-case proposal(s) is in danger of being buried under its own trac ticket comments. We need fresh blood to finally reach an agreement on the syntax. Read the wiki page[1], take a look at the

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-05 Thread Edward Kmett
I really like the \of proposal! It is a clean elision with \x - case x of becoming \of I still don't like it directly for multiple arguments. One possible approach to multiple arguments is what we use for multi-argument case/alt here in our little haskell-like language, Ermine, here at SP

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-05 Thread Twan van Laarhoven
On 2012-07-05 23:04, Edward Kmett wrote: A similar generalization can be applied to the expression between case and of to permit a , separated list of expressions so this becomes applicable to the usual case construct. A naked unparenthesized , is illegal there currently as well. That would

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-05 Thread Donn Cave
The `multi-clause lambda' seems more elegant, if the syntactical problems could be worked out. I mean, unnamed functions are thus just like named functions, something that you'd probably think to try just as soon as you needed the feature. I don't understand the issues well enough with the

Re: Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

2012-07-05 Thread Mikhail Vorozhtsov
On 07/06/2012 04:33 AM, Twan van Laarhoven wrote: On 2012-07-05 23:04, Edward Kmett wrote: A similar generalization can be applied to the expression between case and of to permit a , separated list of expressions so this becomes applicable to the usual case construct. A naked unparenthesized ,