Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why doesn't this work? (palindrome :: IO)

I agree with all that, but in *this *special case, I think that case something of True -> aaaa False -> bbbb is less nice and obvious than if something then aaaa else bbbb 2011/12/9 Brandon Allbery

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 04:16, Yves Parès wrote:

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Why do you people hate 'if' statements?

It's more that the language spec does; if statements, along with a number of other things, desugar to case which is the fundamental conditional construct.

(And more personally, I find the indentation behavior annoying, in that I need to indent then and else more inside something that uses layout; plus the lack of an else if that is aware of being part of a compound means that it "ladders" even more, so I end up switching to case just to keep from ending up on column 200 or something.)

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