2009/11/5 Sebastiaan Visser :
> Hello all,
>
> Wouldn't it be nice if we could write point free case statements?
>
> I regularly find myself writing down something like this:
>
>> myFunc = anotherFunc $ \x -> case x of
>> Left err -> print err
>>
Excerpts from Martijn van Steenbergen's message of Thu Nov 05 16:54:36 +0100
2009:
> Sebastiaan Visser wrote:
> > > myFunc = anotherFunc $ case of
> > > Left err -> print err
> > > Right msg -> putStrLn msg
> >
> > A minor syntactical addition,
> +1
If we're counting increments, should add in previous instances of the
same proposal - Andrew Pimlott Sep 2005 on haskell-cafe, at least.
I agree with Stefan Monnier, might as well allow pattern alternatives
in lambda expressions - essentially the same idea and allows multiple
case parameters
