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But, this has really not a lot to do with pattern matching. Please see my comment at https://www.reddit.com/r/perl6/comments/bvhzwh/perl_6s_given_switch_on_ste

• agumonkey 7y ago
  the condition tree flattening reminds me of pattern matching compilation though
• Sharlin 7y ago
  Surely it has everything to do with pattern matching? A C-style switch statement is an extremely primitive version of pattern matching, and in the article the flattened equivalent of the nested switch structure is just tuple destructuring and matching, just like in Rust I could write match (foo, bar, baz) { (1, 2, 3) => something(), (3, 2, 1) => somethingelse() }
• nemetroid 7y ago
  From that explanation, it sounds very similar to pattern matching in general, and Erlang's case statement in particular. Would you care to elaborate?