[Haskell-beginners] 'case of' question

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:02, Manfred Lotz <manfred.lotz at arcor.de> wrote:

> The only idea I got is:
>
> processX x
>  | x `elem` [ 1, 5, 76 ] = doThis
>  | x `elem` [ 112, 21 ] = doThat
>  | otherwise = doOtherwise
>

That's the correct way to do it.  The trick is to remember that the above is
really a "case of":

> case x of
>   _ | x `elem` [1, 5, 76] -> doThis
>     | x `elem

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