20 Apr
2007
20 Apr
'07
7:20 a.m.
| > # let infer = function | A | B | C -> true; | D | E | F -> false;; | > val infer : foo -> bool = <fun> | | | Yes, I appreciate what you want, and I know ocaml too :) | | I was just talking around the other ways you can achieve it. I don't | know if there is a strong reason why haskell doesn't support an | equivalent syntax. No, there's no strong reason. It's just one more feature... and (perhaps surprisingly) Joel is the first person to raise it that I can remember. Which is not to say that it's unimportant, but it helps to explain why it isn't in the language. Simon