[Haskell-cafe] Guards on variable bindings

[Brandon Allbery]

I think because it desugars to a case-of and there's nothing to case
on in the first one?

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 4:18 PM Tom Ellis
<tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2017 at jaguarpaw.co.uk> wrote:
>
> According to GHC there are multiple declarations of bar, but not of
> foo.  I don't understand.  Why is it not valid to have multiple
> clauses for a variable binding?
>
>
> Tom
>
>
>     bar | False = ()
>     bar = ()
>
>     foo _ | False = ()
>     foo _ = ()
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