[Haskell-cafe] tuple and pattern synonym

18 May 2020

      Hi,

I have a question about PatternSynonyms. Suppose we have:

   data Foo = Foo Int Int

I would like to define a pattern as follows:

   pattern P :: (Int,Int) -> Foo
   pattern P (x,y)  = Foo x y

But this results in "parse error on input ‘(’". Are there any ways to
use tuple in the left side hand of patterns?

This is important to maintain backward compatibility for the "network"
library.

If there is no way, I will define Foo as:

   data Foo = Foo (Int,Int) -- awkward

and define P as:

   pattern P :: (Int,Int) -> Foo
   pattern P xy = Foo xy

Regards,

--Kazu

Kazu Yamamoto