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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Tue, 12 Jan 1993 11:43:34 MST
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:06:54 +0100
From: sperber@soir.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber)
Message-Id: <9301121306.AA10349@soir.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Pattern matching in Icon?
Status: R
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Would it be feasible to have {SML, Miranda, Hope blabla}-style pattern
matching in Icon. (More specifically, a case state that has patterns
instead of literals in the cases.) I think it would fit in neatly
with the data constructors Icon has, and greatly increase its
useability for writing things like compilers in Icon, where you want
to branch on the structure of some data object rather than on a
specific object.
What possible extensions/further developments for Icon are under way,
anyway?
Cheers :-> Chipsy