I'm quite surprised actually. Given the imperative nature of if statements, I wouldn't expect Haskell (of all languages) to be the origin of that term.
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Haskell (among other functional languages, I guess) has guards for pattern matching
sign x | x > 0 = 1 | x == 0 = 0 | x < 0 = -1
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I'm quite surprised actually. Given the imperative nature of
ifstatements, I wouldn't expect Haskell (of all languages) to be the origin of that term.Haskell (among other functional languages, I guess) has guards for pattern matching