[Haskell-cafe] Problem about pattern matching.

Thu Apr 29 05:00:05 EDT 2010

On Apr 29, 2010, at 04:48 , Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
> Sorry folks, I did not make it clear. The firstDayOfMonth and
> lastDayOfMonth was defined earlier in let ... in structure.

Doesn't matter.  Pattern matches *create* local bindings; they don't  
pay any attention to existing ones. So you have a match-anything-and- 
bind-to-"firstDayOfMonth" pattern and a match-anything-and-discard  
pattern; the original firstDayOfMonth is hidden by the new one created  
by the pattern match, and since both patterns match the same thing  
(that is, anything) they overlap.

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