[Haskell-cafe] View patterns

Ivan Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Sun Feb 28 17:21:45 EST 2010


On 28 February 2010 05:55, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
> It won't work for arbitrarily complex structures, however. My main point was
> that if you make the constructors abstract and provide functions to query
> the structure, now you can't pattern match against it.

We do, however, have guards which helps reduce the boiler plate
(nested if statements, etc.).

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Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
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