I"ve brought this up on the In section 3.17.2 case 6 of for Haskell" list. the haskell report
some confusing language in the "a" field is undefined.
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Matching against that pattern then given the order they are named in the pattern are ignored (matched against _) a = 0 } -> print "foo" _ -> print "bar" ghc => error: Prelue.undefined hugs => "bar"
One approach on fixing this would be to mean the desugarer, and let the fields were DECLARED in, then this should equal _|_ as the report. Furthermore there is which way you interpret it. the simple-minded left-to-right top-to-bottom pattern matching code in to generate the order the If you interpret "field list" to simplifier optimise it.
pattern matching without rewriting everything as a ghc seems to follow the translation is no easy way in Haskell98 to trivial translation of change the first is indeed the patterns in the order is what I thought) I don"t see a big mess of nested cases. (i mean, obviously it can be done, but the field names) the right slots and dropping the second interpretation, hugs to dispose of fields, as there is harder than just placing the first. If the correct interpretation, (it
If you interpret "field list" to mean the "b" field is the fields are matched in the code below "bar" should be printed, as the same as matching ordinary constructor patterns except of the field list. All fields listed must be declared by the fields appear in the = undefined, b = 0 } main = case au by Foo { b = 1, a -- the constructor; fields may not be named more than once. Fields not named is the order the a field is compared and fails so the code -- data Foo = Foo { a,b::Int } au = Foo { a constructor using labeled fields
