On 07/05/2012 10:22 PM, wagne...@seas.upenn.edu wrote:
Quoting Mikhail Vorozhtsov <mikhail.vorozht...@gmail.com>:
After 21 months of occasional arguing the lambda-case proposal(s) is
in danger of being buried under its own trac ticket comments. We need
fresh blood to finally reach an agreement on the syntax. Read the wiki
page[1], take a look at the ticket[2], vote and comment on the proposals!
P.S. I'm CC-ing Cafe to attract more people, but please keep the
discussion to the GHC Users list.
[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/LambdasVsPatternMatching
[2] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4359
Well, for what it's worth, my vote goes for a multi-argument \case. I
find the comment on the wiki page about mistyping "\case Just x" instead
of "\case (Just x)" a lot a bit disingenuous, since you already need
these parens with today's lambda. The complaint that multi-argument
cases are unorthodox doesn't really hold a lot of weight with me -- much
more serious things than syntax have changed in GHC compared to the Report!
\case does /not/ require parentheses. I wrote about forgetting them when
using MultiClauseLambdas, e.g.
\(A b) -> ... -- \ here reminds me to use ()
(C d) -> ...
...
Y z -> ... -- After a while I forget about them because all I see is
-- Pat -> Expr, and that's instantly a case-expression
-- alternative clause for me.
This might as well be just my personal thing.
Is there a more formal way to cast votes...?
People are still coming up with new tweaks. I'll write a summary email
with the voted (so far) proposals list, maybe it will be easier to go on
from there.
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