On 22/11/20 6:47 am, David Mertz wrote:
I'm convinced by Guido, Brandt, and others that the bindingĀ  use will be far more common, so adding extra characters for the 90% case does not feel desirable

Minimising the number of characters is not the only consideration.
Readability counts too, and I think the proposed DWIM rules suffer
in the readability area.

There are about five different contexts in which a bare name can
appear as part of a match case:

* As a constructor name
* As a bare name in an argument position
* As part of a dotted expression
* On the left of an =
* On the right of an =

Only in some of those contexts is it treated as a name to be
assigned. That's a fairly complex bit of mental parsing to do
when reading a case.

--
Greg
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