27 Aug
2001
27 Aug
'01
3:09 p.m.
Mark Carroll wrote:
I can write a function x :: Integer -> Integer that returns 5 if I give it 2, 5 or 9, or 7 otherwise. Say,
x 2 = 5 x 5 = 5 x 9 = 5 x _ = 7
Generally, this is a question about where multiple cases lead to the same thing, maybe even in the middle of a function. (Like C's "case 1: case 2: case 3: foo; break;".)
Does it get any better than this, though? I can't convince 'case' to do something like,
case n of 2,5,9 -> 5 otherwise -> 7
Am I missing some syntax somewhere? I'm lost in the grammar in the Haskell report.
-- Mark
I would write:
if elem n [2,5,9] then 5 else 7
Dean