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

Daniel Trstenjak daniel.trstenjak at gmail.com
Thu Jul 12 21:03:51 CEST 2012


On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:38:56PM -0400, Cale Gibbard wrote:
> 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.

I don't think that the 'case section syntax' is obvious, because I don't
see the similarity between a function definition and a partial function
application.

Always using '\' would be a visual hint for a function definition.


Greetings,
Daniel



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