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

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:38 PM, 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.

case of { ... }

looks much better to me than

\case of { ... }

and the former makes sense to me as a simple extension of operator sections to another part of the syntax.

Does anyone else agree?

I also completely agree, but I don't want my opinion to get in the way of progress. -- Your ship was caught in a monadic eruption.