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

Richard O'Keefe ok at cs.otago.ac.nz
Tue Oct 5 20:02:21 EDT 2010


On 6/10/2010, at 5:56 AM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:

>> In order to be consistent with current case, maybe in layout mode:
>> 
>> \1 -> f
>> 2 -> g
>> 
>> and in non-layout mode
>> 
>> \{1 -> f; 2 -> g}
> 
> +1; likewise for consistency it should support guards (which would preclude
> using | the way Richard suggested, and goes along with the "lambda-case" thing).

It's not that I particularly wanted "|".
Just that I thought some sort of visual mark would be a good idea.
Forget I ever suggested it.



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