[Haskell-cafe] "shadowing" keywords like "otherwise"

[Janis Voigtlaender]

Vasili I. Galchin wrote:
> It seems to me that in the code base somewhere that there is a 
> "redefine" of the keyword"otherwise". I haven't read the Haskell 98 
> Report but I thought that it was not possible to redefine keywords. ??

"otherwise" is not a keyword. It is just defined as a normal function
like so:

otherwise = True

Ciao,
Janis.

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