Bug in users manual, 6.4.2, section on pattern guards
Simon Marlow
simonmarhaskell at gmail.com
Fri Jul 21 05:47:53 EDT 2006
Matthew Cox wrote:
> One example given in this discussion is:
>
> clunky env var1 var1 = case lookup env var1 of
> Nothing -> fail
> Just val1 -> case lookup env var2 of
> Nothing -> fail
> Just val2 -> val1 + val2
> where
> fail = val1 + val2
>
> this needs to be fixed to:
>
> clunky env var1 var1 = case lookup env var1 of
> Nothing -> fail
> Just val1 -> case lookup env var2 of
> Nothing -> fail
> Just val2 -> val1 + val2
> where
> fail = var1 + var2 <<<< (Added for emphasis)
>
> I didn't see it myself on the first readthrough, but I was comparing structure between two examples
> and noticed the discrepency. Let's fix it for correctness' sake.
fixed; thanks.
Simon
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