Re: [q-lang-users] "listof" surprises

[Marco M. <ma...@ma...>]

On May 15, 2007, at 10:26 AM, Albert Graef wrote:

> It's not a bug, it's a feature. ;-) What's maybe confuding for Haskell
> programmers here is that 'case' is really just an ordinary Q function
> (albeit a special form) and the clauses argument is just a tuple.

Thank you for the very clear explanation.  I was completely missing
all that, including the grouping syntax.

> You could even define yourself a special form 'let'
> as follows:
>
> special let B X;
> let (A=Z) X = case Z (A,X;);

I like this very much!  Thanks.

M.