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I didn't realize how old this was, which tells you something about how prescient Yegge's writing can be. I would have added "pattern matching", though. At a min
by aphyr 16y ago
I didn't realize how old this was, which tells you something about how prescient Yegge's writing can be. I would have added "pattern matching", though. At a minimum, keyword arguments or syntactic sugar for them.
- brianpan 16y agoHe mentions "Perl 5 compatible regular expression literals" under "kitchen sink"
- maw 16y agoPretty sure the GP is referring to pattern matching as it exists in ML or Scala. Or, somewhat less elegantly (given the constraints of the language) something like what https://github.com/jfd/match-js https://github.com/jfd/match-js does.
- aphyr 16y agoYup. IIRC the R language includes really cool features of both pattern matching and keyword arguments in its function signatures.