Are pattern guards obsolete?

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Yitzchak Gale wrote:

> Yitzchak Gale wrote:
> > > Of course, this is not really the joy of
> > > pattern guards. It is the joy of monads,
> > > with perhaps a few character strokes
> > > saved by a confusing overloading of (<-).
> 
> Philippa Cowderoy wrote:
> > I don't find it any more confusing than the overloading
> > of ->.
> 
> You mean that it is used both for lambda abstractions
> and for functional dependencies? True, but those
> are so different that there is no confusion.
> 

You missed out case statements.

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