9 Jul
2018
9 Jul
'18
3:34 p.m.
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 08:39:49PM +0200, Johannes Waldmann wrote:
Therefore (if False then a) would give an exception.
Yes. And the question is, why is possible to write this program using "case" but not with "if".
Because the error conditions around case were badly designed. My understanding is that a large majority of Haskell developers believe that it should not be possible to omit a branch in a case statement.