[Haskell] Replacing and improving pattern guards with PMC syntax
kahl at cas.mcmaster.ca
kahl at cas.mcmaster.ca
Mon Oct 2 07:59:39 EDT 2006
Brandon Moore <brandonm at yahoo-inc.com> wrote in his answer to my PMC syntax
proposal:
>
> Maybe the '\' could be reiterated to introduce the layout group:
>
> take' = \
> 0 _ -> []
> n \[] -> []
> (x:x) -> x : take (pred n) xs
Definitely not, since the lambda gets us back into expressions,
destroying the fall-through properties of matchings.
(In this particular case this is no problem,
but in general it would destroy fall-through.)
>
> > alt -> match exp with alts
> Maybe reuse "case", unless a new keyword is needed to avoid confusion.
We definitely need this construct to produce a matching (or ``alt'').
If we use ``case'' here, then case expressions don't exist anymore.
Wolfram
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