[Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

[Cale Gibbard]

Personally I don't see why everyone appears to prefer the syntax with
\ in it over just the obvious case section syntax which was originally
proposed.

case of { ... }

looks much better to me than

\case of { ... }

and the former makes sense to me as a simple extension of operator
sections to another part of the syntax.

Does anyone else agree?

On 6 July 2012 20:40, Chris Smith <cdsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
> Whoops, my earlier answer forgot to copy mailing lists... I would love to
> see \of, but I really don't think this is important enough to make case
> sometimes introduce layout and other times not.  If it's going to obfuscate
> the lexical syntax like that, I'd rather just stick with \x->case x of.
>
> On Jul 6, 2012 3:15 PM, "Strake" <strake888 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 05/07/2012, Mikhail Vorozhtsov <mikhail.vorozhtsov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi.
>> >
>> > After 21 months of occasional arguing the lambda-case proposal(s) is in
>> > danger of being buried under its own trac ticket comments. We need fresh
>> > blood to finally reach an agreement on the syntax. Read the wiki
>> > page[1], take a look at the ticket[2], vote and comment on the
>> > proposals!
>> >
>>
>> +1 for "\ of" multi-clause lambdas
>>
>> It looks like binding "of" to me, which it ain't, but it is nicely
>> brief...
>>
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