[Haskell-cafe] case of (was: [Haskell] Mixing monadic and non-monadic functions)

[John Meacham]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 02:17:42PM -0700, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 06:56:36PM +0100, Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote:
> >   * The new syntax is really nice as a replacement for the annoyingly
> >     common "x <- foo ; case x of..." idiom that I've always disliked.
> 
> I might wish for "case of" to mean "\x -> case x of":
> 
>     foo >>= case of ...
> 
> Useful outside of monads, eg to write anonymous functions for map.

Yes. this is exactly an extension I have wanted myself too.

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