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| From | anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: "pattern matching as inverting functions" for "languages without named parameters" |
| Date | 2016-05-07 13:57 +0000 |
| Organization | Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien |
| Message-ID | <2016May7.155757@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink) |
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Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes:
>anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
>> However, I guess that object-oriented dispatch fulfills this role
>> nicely already in Factor, so the structure pattern-matching looks like
>> a solution looking for a problem.
>
>Lisp and Python have features like that, and they are very useful, even
>though Python doesn't have conses (it has vector-like lists and tuples).
Can you present an example use that cannot be solved with same-length
or shorter programs with OOP or higher-order words?
- anton
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"pattern matching as inverting functions" for "languages without named parameters" Andreas Wagner <andreas.wagner@lowfatcomputing.org> - 2016-05-03 11:24 -0700
Re: "pattern matching as inverting functions" for "languages without named parameters" Andreas Wagner <andreas.wagner@lowfatcomputing.org> - 2016-05-03 11:42 -0700
Re: "pattern matching as inverting functions" for "languages without named parameters" anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-05-06 14:56 +0000
Re: "pattern matching as inverting functions" for "languages without named parameters" anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-05-06 16:35 +0000
Re: "pattern matching as inverting functions" for "languages without named parameters" Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-05-06 09:43 -0700
Re: "pattern matching as inverting functions" for "languages without named parameters" anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-05-07 13:57 +0000
Re: "pattern matching as inverting functions" for "languages without named parameters" Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-05-07 17:51 -0700
Re: "pattern matching as inverting functions" for "languages without named parameters" anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2016-05-08 14:02 +0000
Re: "pattern matching as inverting functions" for "languages without named parameters" "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-07 14:51 +0000
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