Hi James,

I think the difference they want to convey is that a function binding names an identifier and can contain several patterns, e.g. `foo [x] y = x + y` whereas a pattern binding is just one pattern, e.g. `[x]` or `y` in the earlier example. Function bindings can be desugared to case expressions with patterns.

Adam

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 3:32 PM, James Brown <james.brown5374@gmail.com> wrote:

I am reading Haskell report 2010 and I can't understand the differences between function bindings and pattern bindings. Can anyone explain the differences?

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