ML like pattern matching

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:49:15 +0300, "Cagdas Ozgenc" <co19@cornell.edu>
wrote:

>How do I emulate the "when" clause in ML for pattern matching? In other 
>words when a pattern is matched (from a list of patterns of a function) and 
>to enforce additional predicates I use guards, but if the guard condition is 
>not satisfied I want Haskell to get back to trying the remaining patterns.

I may be confused about what you're asking for, but Haskell does this by
default:

foo (Left x) | x>3 = "bar"
foo _ = "splat"

Main> foo (Left 5)
"bar"
Main> foo (Left 1)
"splat"


Ganesh