Christopher,
Wouldn't it be great if pattern variables could be used more than once in a pattern? Like so:foo [x,x,_,x] = "The values are the same!" foo _ = "They're not the same!"
These are called nonlinear patterns. I think Miranda (a precursor of Haskell, sort of) used to have them.
Cheers, Stefan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
