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

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Sat Jul 14 03:56:20 CEST 2012


On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Gábor Lehel <illissius at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Cale Gibbard <cgibbard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > case of { ... }
> >
> > looks much better to me than
> >
> > \case of { ... }
>
> I also completely agree, but I don't want my opinion to get in the way
> of progress.


I don't much care whether what is implemented is "\case" or "case of" or
even "\of" (even though that last reads weird), but "\case of" strikes me
as including syntactic noise (a pointless extra token).  One or the other;
not both.

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