This is a superficial view of readability, focusing on terseness and perceived syntactical elegance. "True" readability is achieved through a consistent struct

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.