Re: Does ANSI Common Lisp have pattern matching?

From: Jon Harrop <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 19:16:19 +0100

Tim Bradshaw wrote:

On May 5, 1:24 am, Jon Harrop <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

And all different.

And all benefit from a useful core pattern matcher.

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