[Haskell-cafe] pattern matching vs if-then-else

[Gregory Collins]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Maarten Faddegon <
haskell-cafe at maartenfaddegon.nl> wrote:
>
>         = if    -- All stmts use the same lcv
>                    test_lcv == init_lcv
> && test_lcv == update_lcv
> && test_lcv == update_lcv'
>                 -- And the lcv is not updated in the body
>

This part of the conditional can be written more succinctly as:

all (== test_lcv) [init_lcv, update_lcv, update_lcv']


Re: the if statement, you can also use guard syntax.

G
-- 
Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>
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