[Haskell-cafe] Re: A simple beginner question

[Achim Schneider]

Achim Schneider <barsoap at web.de> wrote:

> filter (\x -> case x of 
> 	{ A -> True
> 	; B b | b > 2 -> True
> 	; C c | c == "foo" -> True
> 	; _ -> False}) sampleTypes
 
coming to think of it: Why can't I write

filter (\A -> True
        \B b | b > 2 -> True
        \C c | c == "foo" -> True
        _ -> False 
       ) sampleTypes

? AFAICT it's syntactically unambiguous.

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