15 Jan
2009
15 Jan
'09
11:53 a.m.
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, Neil Mitchell wrote:
I normally develop in Hugs, for a change I wanted to try GHCi. It's also a project that has loads of pattern matching at a fairly complex level, so the benefits offered by view-patterns and pattern-guards were just too hard to pass up.
Are you sure that you can't come up with some nice functions like 'maybe' to replace those view patterns by function calls? Did you really try? I remember the recent discussion on pattern combinators here on Haskell Cafe.