[erlang-questions] Compound guard expression in case

[Richard O'Keefe]

The first example would probably be better as
   if X =:= 4        -> first case
    ; X >= 2, X =< 6 -> third case
    ; true           -> second case
   end

The second example makes me unhappy.  We are so far in the misty clouds of
abstraction here that we can't see the ground with a telescope.  And the
thing that makes me unhappy is the "_" case.  This is a maintenance bug
waiting to happen, and it does not matter what your programming language is.
This is the ML lesson.  A concrete example would be a big help.

On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 08:43, Hugo Mills <hugo@REDACTED> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 02:33:36PM -0500, Donald Steven wrote:
> > Newbie question regarding best practices (including a string of nested
> ifs):
> >
> > How do you code the following:
>
>    Guards:
>
> > case X of
> >     4             -> something;
> >     <2 or >6 -> something else;
> >     _             -> something else again
> > end,
>
> case X of
>     4 ->
>         something;
>     Y when Y < 2; Y > 6 ->
>         something else;
>     _ ->
>         something else again
> end,
>
> Note that >=2 and =<6 would be written with "when Y >= 2, Y =< 6" --
> use comma for "and", semicolon for "or", with "or" being at the higher
> level:
>
>    Y when Y >= 2, Y =< 6; Y >= 8, Y =< 10 ->
>        Y is either between 2 and 6 or between 8 and 10 inclusive;
>
> > and
> >
> > case X of
> >     atom1 or atom2 or atom3 -> something;
> >     atom4                                    -> something else;
> >     _ ->                                         -> something else again
> > end,
>
> case X of
>     Y when Y =:= atom1; Y =:= atom2; Y =:= atom3 ->
>         something;
>     atom4 ->
>         something else;
>     _ ->
>         something else again
> end,
>
>    Hugo.
>
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