On Jan 13, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Evan Laforge wrote:
It's not a big issue, but it seemed like a nice symmetry with pattern matching syntax.
And I don't think it's a weird idea. The "Haskell dialect" Curry [1] supports this syntax. Maybe the hurdle for Haskell is the competition with more complex, conflicting proposals like [2].
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