Pattern guards vs. case (was, unfortunately :Re: interesting example of laziness/ghc optimisation)

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Thu, 1 Mar 2001 20:25:28 +0900 (KST), Laszlo Nemeth <laszlo@ropas.kaist.ac.kr> pisze:

> > Prelude> let f x | Just _ == x = 0 in f (Just 4)
> > ERROR: Illegal `_' in expression
> 
> So it works with (Just 4), but it doesn't with (Just _)?

'Just _ == x' must be an exppression. '_' is a pattern but not an
expression.

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