[Haskell-cafe] Lambda-case / lambda-if

Bulat Ziganshin bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Mon Oct 4 04:55:57 EDT 2010


Hello Ketil,

Monday, October 4, 2010, 11:30:48 AM, you wrote:
>> Prelude> (if then "Haskell" else "Cafe") False

lambda-if is easily implemented in terms of usual functions.
and we even have one named bool:

bool: Bool -> a -> a -> a

lambda-case cannot be implemented as a function since we need
matching ability of "case"


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com



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