<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>On Feb 23, 2017, at 9:49 PM, Brandon Allbery <<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 12:38 AM, Harendra Kumar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:harendra.kumar@gmail.com" target="_blank">harendra.kumar@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In these examples, we can identify the constructor (capitalized first letter) on the LHS and so we are trained to know that it is a pattern match. The original point related to number specialness was that "1 = 2" is not easily identifiable as a pattern match because there are no explicit constructors. The literal "1" here is neither an "explicit constructor" nor a binding symbol.</blockquote></div><br>Yes, at this point you just have to know that the Report specifies a bunch of special handling for numeric literals.<div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div></div></div></div>
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</blockquote><br><div>Also: "day" = "night"</div><div><br></div><div>Isn't every "=" a pattern match?</div><div><br></div><div>JEff</div></body></html>