On 22/11/20 6:47 am, David Mertz wrote:
I'm convinced by Guido, Brandt, and others that the binding use will be far more common, so adding extra characters for the 90% case does not feel desirable
Minimising the number of characters is not the only consideration. Readability counts too, and I think the proposed DWIM rules suffer in the readability area. There are about five different contexts in which a bare name can appear as part of a match case: * As a constructor name * As a bare name in an argument position * As part of a dotted expression * On the left of an = * On the right of an = Only in some of those contexts is it treated as a name to be assigned. That's a fairly complex bit of mental parsing to do when reading a case. -- Greg