From: Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@md5i.com>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: match facility
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:26:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87harvanlw.fsf@maru.md5i.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9xodkax.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Tue, 21 Aug 2012 23:09:10 +0200")
Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
> One of the things I have most enjoyed about the Guile 2.0 series is that
> it bundles a pattern matcher. I love using pattern matchers to
> destructure data -- it feels really nice.
>
> I needed to match some Elisp data recently, so I wrote the following
> matcher. What do you think about it? If you like it, I can do the
> paperwork.
Just so you know, I think this is already in elisp. Take a look at
pcase:
pcase is an autoloaded Lisp macro in `pcase.el'.
(pcase EXP &rest CASES)
Perform ML-style pattern matching on EXP.
--
Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i@md5i.com)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-21 22:26 UTC|newest]
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2012-08-21 21:09 match facility Andy Wingo
2012-08-21 22:26 ` Michael Welsh Duggan [this message]
2012-08-22 6:26 ` Andy Wingo
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