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I believe you're mistaking "easy" with "convenient".

• sgeisenh 10y ago
  How so? Pattern matching makes for more readable code. And more readable code makes writing projects easier. It is also more convenient to write code using pattern matching, but that isn't the primary benefit.
  • galacticpony 10y ago
    This is a superficial view of readability, focusing on terseness and perceived syntactical elegance. "True" readability is achieved through a consistent structuring of your program, which has to conform to the expectations of the reader. Programmers must first build this expectation from picking up patterns in the code, which emerge no matter if you use pattern matching or an equivalent structure using the available language constructs.
    • joesb 10y ago
      They all contribute to readability. You can always write in assembly code, with all that consistent structuring and conforming to expectation. But I'll takes writing in higher language with "abstraction you can write yourself" any day.
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