[Haskell-cafe] An interesting curiosity

[sam lee]

I think it's because + is left associative. and pattern matching is
top to bottom.
1 + 1 + 1 => (1 + 1) + 1 => found match: 1 + 1 = 3 => 3 + 1 => found
match: 3 + 1 = 3 => 3

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Steven Shaw <steshaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/9/19 Evan Laforge <qdunkan at gmail.com>
>> let {1 + 1 = 3; 3 + 1 = 3} in 1 + 1 + 1
>
> Which gives 3.
>
> Perhaps even more confusing is:
>
> let {1 + 1 = 3; 3 + 1 = 3} in 3 + 1 + 1
>
> which gives 3
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