Donald Bruce Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The joy of pattern guards
reveals once you have more conditions.
I wrote:
Of course, this is not really the joy of
pattern guards. It is the joy of monads,
with perhaps a few character strokes
saved by a confusing overloading of (-).
Philippa
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
Yitzchak Gale wrote:
Of course, this is not really the joy of
pattern guards. It is the joy of monads,
with perhaps a few character strokes
saved by a confusing overloading of (-).
Philippa Cowderoy wrote:
I don't find it any more
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
Philippa Cowderoy wrote:
I don't find it any more confusing than the overloading
of -.
I wrote:
You mean that it is used both for lambda abstractions
and for functional dependencies? True, but those
are so different that there is no
Philippa Cowderoy wrote:
This is what I get for replying straight away!
Oh, no, I'm happy that you responded quickly.
I think my point is that I'm not aware of many people
who actually think this is a problem or get confused.
Well, I don't mean that this is something that experienced
Hi,
I am not clear why you think the current notation is confusing...
Could you give a concrete example? I am thinking of something along
the lines: based on how - works in list comprehensions and the do
notation, I would expect that pattern guards do XXX but instead, they
confusingly do YYY.
Iavor Diatchki wrote:
I am not clear why you think the current notation is confusing...
Could you give a concrete example? I am thinking of something along
the lines: based on how - works in list comprehensions and the do
notation, I would expect that pattern guards do XXX but instead, they
I am not clear why you think the current notation is confusing...
Could you give a concrete example? I am thinking of something along
the lines: based on how - works in list comprehensions and the do
notation, I would expect that pattern guards do XXX but instead, they
confusingly do YYY. I
Hi
in spite of their similarity, all of these constructs handle some of the
monadic aspects differently. the translations of pattern guards not only
embed statements in guard, they also embed the right hand sides of
generators in return. translations of list comprehensions only lift
statements.
Yitzchak Gale writes:
Philippa Cowderoy wrote:
I don't find it any more confusing than the overloading
of -.
I wrote:
You mean that it is used both for lambda abstractions
and for functional dependencies? True, but those
are so different that there is no confusion.
Oh, and case.
