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

[John Lask]

On 13/07/2012 3:08 AM, 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.
>
> 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?
>

yes.
I prefer "case of" rather than "\case of" for aesthetic reasons.