Re: Implementation Language Choice

Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>
27 Feb 2004 22:15:33 -0500

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From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 27 Feb 2004 22:15:33 -0500
Organization: Integrable Solutions
References: 04-02-109 04-02-131 04-02-149 04-02-164
Keywords: design
Posted-Date: 27 Feb 2004 22:15:33 EST

Joachim Durchholz <joachim.durchholz@web.de> writes:


| Lex Spoon wrote:
| > The feature that is especially nice is the pattern-matching switch
| > statement that most functional languages include.
|
| Agreed, pattern matching is nice. ("Pattern matching" as in "use a
| typesafe union type, and recognize the variant at hand and disassemble
| the record elements, all in a single construct"; the pattern matching
| we're talking about here is unrelated to regular expressions or image
| processing.)
|
| Though it's beyond me why this never made it into mainstream imperative
| languages; it's exceedingly useful.


Probably because people have been using the more general Visitor Pattern?


-- Gaby


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