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I had to check that on the REPL. I'm surprised that even works and I can't think of a good reason why should list syntax be allowed as a lvalue, in addition to

I had to check that on the REPL. I'm surprised that even works and I can't think of a good reason why should list syntax be allowed as a lvalue, in addition to tuple syntax.

Estragon 14y ago
It's called destructuring assignment. It's been around for a while. http://dunsmor.com/lisp/onlisp/onlisp_22.html http://dunsmor.com/lisp/onlisp/onlisp_22.html
- euccastro 14y ago
  I mean why would you want to allow both list and tuple syntax for exactly the same semantics, when either of them would be enough.
  - almost 14y ago
    I just wish we had destructing assignment for other types as well. And maybe a proper pattern matching!