Hi All, I am new to Haskell. I just started reading "Real World Haskell" a few days ago, so I apologize for being such a noob. But, I am curious why I see a lot of code where people do pattern matching via multiple function declarations instead of using the case ... of ... construct? For example: [code] foldl' _ zero [] = zero foldl' step zero (x:xs) = let new = step zero x in new `seq` foldl' step new xs [/code] instead of this, which I prefer: [code] foldl' f acc xs = case xs of [] -> acc (x:xs) -> let new = f acc x in new `seq` foldl' f new xs [/code] -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Haskell-Style---Pattern-Matching-with-case-vs.-functio... Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com.