> You can pattern match on basically any shape, not just atoms. Imagine you’re parsing a protocol over tcp and want to grab groups of characters between deliver

> You can pattern match on basically any shape, not just atoms. Imagine you’re parsing a protocol over tcp and want to grab groups of characters between deliverers, you can pattern match that. Ex: https://youtu.be/MaQqa21uxQ8?t=548 https://youtu.be/MaQqa21uxQ8?t=548 (note that "binary" here is a "binary blob of bytes"). Andreas pattern matches on the magic byte, then encoded string length, then the string (using the previous matched length), then an int, all in the function header, no if-else-try-catch mess.