From bac57615345fee7db087bb645900c30c72fd513c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: greg <greg.shuflin@protonmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 02:12:37 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add a note

---
 schala-lang/src/reduced_ast.rs | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/schala-lang/src/reduced_ast.rs b/schala-lang/src/reduced_ast.rs
index 966417a..8d27e60 100644
--- a/schala-lang/src/reduced_ast.rs
+++ b/schala-lang/src/reduced_ast.rs
@@ -221,6 +221,9 @@ impl Pattern {
         unimplemented!()
       },
       Ignored => unimplemented!(),
+      /* "a constant appearing in a pattern can easily be eliminated by replacing it with a variable
+       * and adding a guard to the equation instead" -  Implementation of Functional Programming
+       * Languages Simon Peyton-Jones, p. 58 */
       Literal(lit) => match lit {
         PatternLiteral::NumPattern { neg, num } => unimplemented!(),
         PatternLiteral::StringPattern(_s) => unimplemented!(),