[Haskell-cafe] Re: A simple beginner question

3 Jun 2008

      Achim Schneider  wrote:
...
filter (\x -> case x of 
  { A -> True
  ; B b | b > 2 -> True
  ; C c | c == "foo" -> True
  ; _ -> False}) sampleTypes
coming to think of it: Why can't I write

filter (\A -> True
        \B b | b > 2 -> True
        \C c | c == "foo" -> True
        _ -> False 
       ) sampleTypes

? AFAICT it's syntactically unambiguous.

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