[Haskell-beginners] (no subject)

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Jamie F Olson <jamie.f.olson at gmail.com>wrote:

> Would it have been legal to define data JSValue as something like this
> instead?
>
> data JSValue
>     = JSValue
>     | JSValue     !Bool
>     | JSValue !Rational
>     | JSValue   JSString
>     | JSValue    [JSValue]
>     | JSValue   (JSObject JSValue)


No; the data constructor used tells it what to expect afterward.

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