Re: Does ANSI Common Lisp have pattern matching?



Alan Crowe wrote:
So a fair summary could be that ANSI Common Lisp does have
built in pattern matching, but never fixed on a slick
notation to distinguish between literals, types, and
variables, leaving the programmer to make that choice and
define some macros to implement it.

Yes. I think decent pattern matching would be a welcome addition to the next
Lisp standard.

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