Prototype of 'docase' notation

[Sebastian Fischer]

This is interesting.

I think using a slightly different notation would avoid confusion with
matching on tuples. Why not just write

    docase a,b,c of

instead of

    docase (a,b,c) of

?

Sebastian

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Tomas Petricek
<tomas.petricek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,!
> at the Cambridge Hackathon, I started implementing an extension for GHC that
> adds the 'docase' notation. The notation is a syntactic sugar that can makes
> it easier to write code that works with monads that have three additional
> operations (parallel composition, choice and aliasing). Such monads include
> various moands for parallel and concurrent programming (Par monad, CPH and
> Orc) as well as other monads such as parsers.
>
> The proposal is in details discussed in our Haskell Symposium paper:
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~tp322/papers/docase.html (the page also contains
> link to earlier pre-processor based prototype with a couple of more
> examples). I created a GHC Trac ticket to track the discussion about the
> feature: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5429. A prototype
> version of the GHC extension is available here:
> http://github.com/tpetricek/Haskell.Extensions/commits/.
>
> I'd love to hear some feedback about the feature and the extension:
>
> * Do you think this is a useful extension and do you know about any monads
> that could benefit from it?
> * What is the best syntax for the feature? (The notation intentionally
> resembles 'case' pattern matching, but there are some differences)
> * The feature adds some aspects of recently added monad comprehensions using
> do-style syntax, but both 'docase' and monad comprehensions have features
> that cannot be written using the other. Is that a good desing, or should
> there be a closer correspondence?
> * Can anybody review the prototype implementation? (I believe it is a
> reasonably modular change, so it should not affect the rest of the language,
> but is there anything missing/incorrect?)
>
> Thanks!
> Tomas
>
>
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