Re: SBCL is now faster than Java, as fast as Ocaml, and getting better

På Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:25:13 +0200, skrev Vassil Nikolov <vnikolov+usenet@xxxxxxxxx>:

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:52:41 +0200, "John Thingstad" <jpthing@xxxxxxxxx> said:

|...
|| BTW, what's exactly the difference between paren matching and pattern
|| matching?
|| ...
| pattern matching as in cl-ppcre, cl-yacc, cl-unify,...?

As in

f 0 = 0
f 1 = 1
f (n+2) = f n + f (n+1)

Unless we are talking about parent matching, that is...

---Vassil.



I think my point was that there are many types of pattern matching.
Why should one be a part of the language and the others not?
Seems to me to be pretty few places in the code where algebraic matching helps the code.

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John Thingstad
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