Re: cond and match

Hello! On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 01:07:08PM +0000, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:

Fri, 7 Dec 2001 17:12:52 -0500 (EST), David Feuer pisze:

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I'm wondering why Haskell doesn't support Scheme-like cond statements or a pattern matching predicate.

I agree that both constructs make sense. The main objective is probably that the syntax is already quite rich and this would be another thing to learn and implement.

As well, these constructs would reserve two more identifiers and so break quite some existing programs. I could expect that especially match could be used sometimes, like let match = search foo bar in use match somehow Kind regards, Hannah.