Re: [Haskell-cafe] Partial pattern matching

You can use the record syntax to get around some of this: data P { first :: Int, second :: Int } firstCoord (P {first = f}) = f 2009/3/9 Peter Verswyvelen

In Haskell, a data constructor can be used partially applied: data Pair a b = P a b

f = P 1

however, I cannot do "partial pattern matching", e.g

firstCoord (P x) = x

does not work.

I guess a very important reason must exist why this is the case?

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