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Re: "pattern matching as inverting functions" for "languages without named parameters"

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: "pattern matching as inverting functions" for "languages without named parameters"
Date 2016-05-06 09:43 -0700
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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).

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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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