Re: Are pattern guards obsolete?

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Yitz Gale wrote:

Donald Bruce Stewart writes:

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The joy of pattern guards reveals once you have more conditions.

Of course, this is not really the joy of pattern guards. It is the joy of monads, with perhaps a few character strokes saved by a confusing overloading of (<-).

I don't find it any more confusing than the overloading of ->. Note that it's not (<-) - it's not an operator. -- flippa@flippac.org Sometimes you gotta fight fire with fire. Most of the time you just get burnt worse though.