Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

Strake strake888 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 7 17:07:46 CEST 2012


On 07/07/2012, Jonas Almström Duregård <jonas.duregard at chalmers.se> wrote:
> Couldn't we use \\ for multi-case lambdas with layout?
>
> If not, these are my preferences in order (all are single argument
> versions):
> 1: Omission: "case of". There seems to be some support for this but it
> was not included in the summary.
> 2: Omission with clarification: "\case of"
> 3: "\of"  - but I think this is a little weird. It's nice to have
> short keywords but not at the expense of intuition. The goal here is
> to drop the variable name not the case keyword, right?
>
> Regards,
> Jonas

Well, since this is now suddenly a ranked-choice election, I shall
re-cast my vote:

1. "case of"
2. "\ of"



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