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Thanks for the tip about that book. I'm collecting a number of resources from the answers here and I'll try to go through them. Right now Paul Graham's "On Lisp

• brudgers 7y ago
  It's been a few years since I read On Lisp. I kind of walked away with the impression that the main characters are macros and the star is anaphoric macros. There are nuggets in the buildup to their introduction and anaphoric macros are interesting. But my brain doesn't wrap very far around macros and my sense of understanding dissipated pretty quickly each time I stopped reading. For me, Graham's On Lisp was fun to read but less applicable than his ANSI Common Lisp. On Lisp was a rabbit hole for me. A fun rabbit hole. But still a rabbit hole. --- Changing gears back to your original question, Racket has pattern matching. [1] [2] [1]: Racket Guide: https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/match.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/match.html [2]: Racket Reference: https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/match.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/match.html