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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: linasvepstas@gmail.com
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
	"guile-user@gnu.org" <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A bit further toward the flamewar
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:28:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hb3cq8n9.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHrUA34dB759bhfdzskLmJwZ4vNybi6ELgHLJAHh0+-BVRJ9XA@mail.gmail.com> (Linas Vepstas's message of "Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:42:45 -0500")

On Thu 13 Oct 2011 23:42, Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com> writes:

> In the code that I work on, in (func a b), its rarely the case that a
> and b are merely strings or lists; they're usually some fairly complex
> structure, where e.g. 'b' is a list where car and cadr must be
> strings, and caddr may or may not be another list, with certain
> expectations about car, cadr, etc.

In this case, I find `match' to be useful.  The structure of the pattern
matches the structure of the input data, so it is much better than
cadaddring down a list.

Andy
-- 
http://wingolog.org/



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-14  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-12 14:54 Why is guile still so slow? John Lewis
2011-10-12 15:39 ` rixed
2011-10-12 18:56   ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2011-10-12 22:40     ` rixed
2011-10-12 23:56       ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2011-10-13  6:23         ` rixed
2011-10-13 10:22     ` Andy Wingo
2011-10-13 11:27       ` A bit further toward the flamewar rixed
2011-10-13 14:26         ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-10-13 15:20           ` Andy Wingo
2011-10-13 16:30             ` Linas Vepstas
2011-10-13 18:37               ` Mike Gran
2011-10-13 21:42                 ` Linas Vepstas
2011-10-13 22:08                   ` dskr
2011-10-14  1:07                   ` Ian Price
2011-10-14  8:40                     ` Andy Wingo
2011-10-14 16:23                     ` Linas Vepstas
2011-10-15  8:44                       ` Andy Wingo
2011-10-14  8:28                   ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2011-10-14 16:30                     ` Linas Vepstas
2011-10-14 17:26                       ` Andy Wingo
2011-10-13 19:16               ` Hans Aberg
2011-10-14  9:57               ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2011-10-13 17:43             ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-10-13 18:54           ` rixed
2011-10-13 21:14             ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-10-13 21:58               ` Hans Aberg
2011-10-14  9:28                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-10-14 10:53                   ` Hans Aberg
2011-10-14  9:37               ` rixed
2011-10-14 20:05                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-10-12 15:52 ` Why is guile still so slow? Andy Wingo
2011-10-12 16:19 ` John Lewis

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