On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 8:51 AM, David Thomas
Jon's suggestion sounds great.
The bike shed should be green.
There were plenty of proposals that would work fine. `case of` was great. `\ of` was great. It's less obvious to me that stand-alone `of` is never ambiguous... but if that's true, it's reasonable. Sadly, the option that was worse that doing nothing at all is what was implemented. The "bikeshedding" nonsense is frustrating. Bikeshedding is about wasting time debating the minutia of a significant improvement, when everyone agrees the improvement is a good idea. Here, what happened was that someone proposed a minor syntax tweak (from `\x -> case x of` to `case of`), other reasonable minor syntax tweaks were proposed instead to accomplish the same goal, and then in the end, out of the blue, it was decided to turn `case` into a layout-inducing keyword (or even worse, only sometimes but not always layout-inducing). There is no bike shed here. There are just colors (minor syntax tweaks). And I don't get the use of "bikeshedding" as basically just a rude comment to be made at people who don't like the same syntax others do. -- Chris