Re: [q-lang-users] where

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Albert Graef wrote:
> Of course there's an existing solution to this, namely Haskell's guarded
> equation syntax, but that also looks fairly messy IMHO. Oh well, I guess
> I'll have to take another look at Miranda to see if Turner already
> solved that problem.

I just checked that, and AFAICT in Miranda there are no local
definitions shared by different equations either. Given that most of
these usage cases can be handled quite conveniently with if-then-else
and case, I'm not really convinced that we need the proposed extension.
Other opinions?

Albert

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