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From: jrk@sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: Pattern matching considered harmful
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Date: 7 Jun 90 08:52:35 GMT
References: <1990Jun5.175706.415@newcastle.ac.uk> <2584@skye.ed.ac.uk> <3077@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <2790@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <RJC.90Jun4134659@brodie.uk.ac.ed.cstr> <1990Jun07.020319.27609@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
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In article <1990Jun07.020319.27609@comp.vuw.ac.nz> brian@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Brian Boutel) writes:
>Views were considered for inclusion in Haskell, but dropped when we
>found some awkward consequences that we did not want to deal with
>without first gaining more experience with their use.

But if no-one implements views, where will such experience come from?

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Richard Kennaway          SYS, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
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