[Hat] Qualified variable in pattern: T.mkRoot
Thomas Davie
tatd2 at kent.ac.uk
Wed Jun 29 09:40:30 EDT 2005
>
> The 0 is the tightness of binding, not the arity.
>
> pat^0 -> pat^1 -> ... -> pat^10 -> gcon apat_1
>
> Such contructs look a bit odd at the top level, but I think
>
> foo x = f y
> where Just y = x
>
> is more common. Even more so is
>
> [ x | Just x <- xs]
Okay, I see that, now I'm slightly intrigued -- if, as before, we have
Just foo = undefined
Doesn't that have 2 effects:
foo = undefined
undefined :: Maybe a
and thus cause a type error (i.e. undefined has become too specific)?
Bob
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