[eeps] Request for comments on EEP-25 "Unnesting cases"

[Dave Smith]

I'd favour omitting the "or" and I would tend to format it like this...

case Expr of
    Pat -> Expr ;
case Expr of
    Pat -> Expr ;
    Pat -> Expr end.

After all the case's are piers and belong at the same indent level. If we do
go with an "or", isn't the ";" redundant?  Semantically, I've always
considered ";" to mean "or" and "," to mean "and" in Erlang.

I can appreciate Richard's "unique" formatting style. Unfortunately,
optional preceding ";" is not allowed on the first  pattern.

case Expr of
   ; Pat -> Expr
or case Expr of
   ; Pat -> Expr
   ; Pat -> Expr end.


2008/12/19 Robert Virding <rvirding@REDACTED>

> 2008/12/19 Ulf Wiger <ulf@REDACTED>
>
>> 2008/12/19 Raimo Niskanen <raimo+eeps@REDACTED<raimo%2Beeps@REDACTED>
>> >:
>> > I would like you to submit comments regarding EEP-25 on the
>> > eeps@REDACTED mailing list.
>>
>> I for one find it acceptable. The "; or case" construct is ok -
>> perhaps not extremely elegant, but conveys the meaning
>> very well.
>>
>
> Note that "; or case" is Richard's O'Keefe's way of writing it, "normally"
> it would look like:
>
> case Expr of
>     Pat -> Expr ;
>     or case Expr of
>     Pat -> Expr ;
>     Pat -> Expr ;
>     or case ...
>
> Richard prefers using the separators as a form of keyword. You probably
> don't need the extra 'or' though it might make it clearer.
>
> As an alternative suggestion is to have cond but to extend the test to have
> a boolena match:
>
> cond
>     test1() -> ... ;
>     Pat = expr() -> ... ;
>     ...
> end
>
> and allow guards. It wouldn't be as versatile as the suggestion in the EEP.
>
> Robert
>
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