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Yeah I really want to move to a language with pattern matching. Hopefully it will finally land in Java

• vbezhenar 8y ago
  Kotlin does not support pattern matching.
  • sk5t 8y ago
    Yeah, Kotlin has some "enhanced switch" type stuff, but nothing that compares to Scala's matching with unapply, list extraction, etc.
    • linkmotif 8y ago
      Oh! Thought it did. Forget Kotlin, then :)!!
      • sk5t 8y ago
        Kotlin is still a pleasant language to use, and some of the ideas have some good carryover to Scala, with quite a lot less culture shock than going right from Java to Scala.
    • nostrademons 8y ago
      It has destructuring in value binding and lambda parameters, as well. Pretty handy when you're dealing with a lot of pairs, triples, and data classes, though not quite as powerful as true pattern-matching.
    • vbezhenar 8y ago
      Actually they have some foundations, componentN functions serve similar role to unapply, so theoretically it should be possible to build good enough pattern matching. But, unfortunately, they seem to slow down language development a lot since release.
• dionian 8y ago
  scala, eta
  • Floegipoky 8y ago
    https://docs.scala-lang.org/tour/pattern-matching.html https://docs.scala-lang.org/tour/pattern-matching.html