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		nickb on Nov 12, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pattern Matching in Ruby Interesting that he didn't mention Prolog... Prolog's pattern matching is one of the reasons why I still look favorably at the language as a whole.

michaelneale on Nov 12, 2007 [–]

well yeah.

actually I noticed scala has pattern matching as a first class control construct. Its pretty amazing. Just right there in the language (which is not surprising, given the functional influence in it).

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