Re: Does ANSI Common Lisp have pattern matching?

Rainer Joswig wrote:
Otherwise we fall in the trap, that we just take what
the programming language offers and use that - without
knowing the limitations it has representing the domain.
That's a nice exercise, but it does not scale very
far.

It isn't perfect, but it is much better than car/cdr.

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