[Haskell-cafe] case of (was: [Haskell] Mixing monadic and non-monadic functions)

On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 06:56:36PM +0100, Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote:

* The new syntax is really nice as a replacement for the annoyingly common "x <- foo ; case x of..." idiom that I've always disliked.

I might wish for "case of" to mean "\x -> case x of": foo >>= case of ... Useful outside of monads, eg to write anonymous functions for map. Andrew