[m-dev.] Syntactic sugar for functor matching

Ralph Becket rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Wed Oct 31 16:40:55 AEDT 2001


Tyson Dowd, Wednesday, 31 October 2001:
> On 31-Oct-2001, Thomas Charles CONWAY <conway at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > 
> > I would argue that Mercury has quite enough syntactic cruft as it is!
> > That's not to say that such a feature might sometimes be useful, but
> > rather that the language contains lots of crufty syntax already, and
> > we would probably be better of migrating to a cleaner syntax.
> 
> Why don't you just accuse Ralph of peddling Perl... 

I have a truly wond'rous retort, but this forum is too polite to
contain it.
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