I agree with all that, but in *this *special case, I think that case something of True -> aaaa False -> bbbb
is less nice and obvious than if something then aaaa else bbbb 2011/12/9 Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 04:16, Yves Parès <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Why do you people hate 'if' statements? >> > > It's more that the language spec does; if statements, along with a number > of other things, desugar to case which is the fundamental conditional > construct. > > (And more personally, I find the indentation behavior annoying, in that I > need to indent then and else more inside something that uses layout; plus > the lack of an else if that is aware of being part of a compound means > that it "ladders" even more, so I end up switching to case just to keep > from ending up on column 200 or something.) > > -- > brandon s allbery [email protected] > wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms > >
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