[Haskell-cafe] Lambda-case / lambda-if

[Donn Cave]

Quoth "Richard O'Keefe" <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz>,
...
> Erlang manages fine with multiclause 'fun':
>
> 	(fun (1) -> "One" ; (_) -> "Not-one" end)(1)
>
> ML manages fine with multiclause 'fn':
>
> 	(fn 1 => "one" | _ => "not-one")(1)
>
> In both cases, the same notation is used for multiclause lambda as
> for single clause lambda.  It seems excessively ugly to use
> completely different notation depending on the number of alternatives,
> especially when one of the notations has another, much more common,
> and distinct usage.

Just to be sure, are you saying, rather than

    case of
        1 -> f
        2 -> g

you'd like to see \ support pattern matching etc. like named functions -

    \ 1 -> f
      2 -> g

?
	Donn