Re: Does ANSI Common Lisp have pattern matching?

Andy Freeman wrote:
Actually, Crowe (and Joswig) explained why pattern matching should not
be part of the language.

Nonsense. Alan gave an excellent example of when pattern matching is useful.
There are many more.

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