[darcs-devel] [patch1910] darcs.cabal: sort extensions except NoMo... (and 1 more)
Ben Franksen
bugs at darcs.net
Tue Sep 3 17:58:14 UTC 2019
Ben Franksen <ben.franksen at online.de> added the comment:
Sorry. Ignore last message.
>> I find ViewPatterns particularly ugly and hard to read, so I would
>> rather get rid of them than sanction their use.
>
> Oops, sorry. I was confused. I meant the extension where you say
>
> case function -> .. of
I wasn't confused. These are view patterns. And my opinion about them
stands.
> I rember these being used in the old mangling code. I forgot how they
> are named and I think they aren't used anymore in darcs.
They are still used in several places.
> ViewPatterns are the thing where you define a data type like thing and
> use it as if it were the real data type, right? These are okay, too.
These are PatternSynonyms which are nice.
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