[Baypiggies] Eric Raymond likes Python

[Brian Palmer]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Stephen McInerney
<spmcinerney at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> > From: wescpy at gmail.comNo pattern matching. And even no switches —
> actually even PHP has it. Some people recommend to use “if – else if”
> constructions instead…[??? re module was added way back in Python 1.5, and
> before that there was regex]
>

He's talking about a different form of pattern matching. A haskell-like
pattern matching examle:

  should_stop: Car -> Light -> Boolean
  should_stop Ambulance _  = False
  should_stop _ Red = True
  should_stop _ _ = False

should_stop would be a function that says whether a car should stop at a
light. Ambulances never stop regardless of the light; all other cars stop at
red; and otherwise, cars don't stop.
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