Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call to arms: lambda-case is stuck and needs your help

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:38:56PM -0400, Cale Gibbard wrote:

Personally I don't see why everyone appears to prefer the syntax with \ in it over just the obvious case section syntax which was originally proposed.

I don't think that the 'case section syntax' is obvious, because I don't see the similarity between a function definition and a partial function application. Always using '\' would be a visual hint for a function definition. Greetings, Daniel