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

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Vasili,

Sunday, June 28, 2009, 10:39:37 AM, you wrote:

>         ; case fmt of
>              N3        -> swishParseN3 fnam inp
>             otherwise ->
>                 do  { swishError ("Unsupported file format: "++(show fmt)) 4
>                     ; return Nothing
>                     }
>          }

first, otherwise aka True is used in *condition* part of case
statement. here you should use _

second, otherwise isn't a keyword, just a Prelude definition. here,
you assign fmt value to this identifier


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