26 Jan
2007
26 Jan
'07
6:12 p.m.
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
Me too. It is a nice observation of a particular point in the design space, but it is so similar to pattern guards that I would not want to have both in the language. Pattern guards win for me, because there is no implicit Maybe, and computation sharing is explicit.
I'm tempted to suggest this may be akin to issues like let vs where or patterns in bindings vs explicit lambdas - examples where having both adds human-expressibility to the language. -- flippa@flippac.org A problem that's all in your head is still a problem. Brain damage is but one form of mind damage.