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# clean-compiler
The [Clean][clean] compiler.
The official Clean compiler can be found at
[https://svn.cs.ru.nl/repos/clean-compiler/][cocl].
This is a fork to implement experimental new features.
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## Contents
1\. [Syntactic sugar](#1-syntactic-sugar)
1.1. [Lambda-case](#11-lambda-case)
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## 1. Syntactic sugar
### 1.1. Lambda-case
Similar to [GHC's LambdaCase][ghclambdacase], this is a sugar for lambda
expressions where the argument is only used in a `case .. of` expression. For
example,
```clean
\case of
0 = "zero"
1 = "one"
_ = "many"
```
is transformed to
```clean
\x -> case x of
0 = "zero"
1 = "one"
_ = "many"
```
where `x` is a fresh variable.
The `of` is optional (though recommended to distinguish Clean from Haskell).
The extension to the grammar:
```
LambdaAbstr = ...
| \case [of] {CaseAltDef}+
```
[clean]: http://clean.cs.ru.nl
[cocl]: https://svn.cs.ru.nl/repos/clean-compiler/
[ghclambdacase]: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_guide/glasgow_exts.html#lambda-case
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