[Haskell-cafe] Why doesn't this work? (palindrome :: IO)

[Yves Parès]

I agree with all that, but in *this *special case, I think that

case something of
   True -> aaaa
   False -> bbbb

is less nice and obvious than

if something
   then aaaa
   else bbbb

2011/12/9 Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>

> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 04:16, Yves Parès <limestrael at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Why do you people hate 'if' statements?
>>
>
> It's more that the language spec does; if statements, along with a number
> of other things, desugar to case which is the fundamental conditional
> construct.
>
> (And more personally, I find the indentation behavior annoying, in that I
> need to indent then and else more inside something that uses layout; plus
> the lack of an else if that is aware of being part of a compound means
> that it "ladders" even more, so I end up switching to case just to keep
> from ending up on column 200 or something.)
>
> --
> brandon s allbery                                      allbery.b at gmail.com
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