[Haskell-cafe] Renaming constructors for readability

[David Roundy]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 11:44:30PM +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Dougal Stanton wrote:
> 
> > -- int a = 3;
> > -- int *pa = &a;
> > ampersand :: t -> Pointer t
> > ampersand a = Just a
> 
> What's bad about using 'ampersand' function as replacement for the
> constructor 'Just'?

It wouldn't work in pattern matching.
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David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University