[Haskell-cafe] Pattern Matching

[Colin Paul Adams]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> writes:

    Andrew> Casey Hawthorne wrote:
    >> Why in a pattern match like
    >> 
    >> score (1 3) = 7
    >> 
    >> can I not have
    >> 
    >> sizeMax = 3
    >> 
    >> score (1 sizeMax) = 7
    >> 

If I had a dollar for every time I've written something like

    Andrew>  case msg of eVENT_QUIT -> ...  eVENT_POST -> ...
    Andrew> eVENT_RESIZE -> ...

    Andrew> and spent an hour trying to figure out why the messages
    Andrew> aren't being processed right... ;-)

So why aren't they?


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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire