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UNPOPULAR OPINION: HASKELL EDITION Hit me!

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Haskell '98 + MPTCs and FunDeps was a local optimum and every day we stray further from Church's light.

LambdaCase though

LambdaCase has such an ugly and unintuitive syntax that it should die. It’s useful, but it should have different syntax.

I don't like \ for lambdas in general. I get what it was going for, but it just doesn't look good.

What would you have chosen instead?

How about picking the same syntax as for sections? I.e., leave out the expression, eg (case of True -> t; False -> f)

Nice! Also interested in

's ideas for alternatives to `\` for lambdas.

Sorry, I have no nice alternative for \. I’m somewhat responsible for it being \ in the first place. :)

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Hah! No worries! I don’t mind it too much. Been experimenting with `fun x => y` for my own language though :)