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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: Pattern matching considered harmful
Message-ID: <2712@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Jun 90 15:21:21 GMT
References: <1990Jun5.175706.415@newcastle.ac.uk> <2584@skye.ed.ac.uk> <3077@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <2790@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <RJC.90Jun4134659@brodie.uk.ac.ed.cstr> <1990Jun07.020319.27609@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
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In article <1990Jun07.020319.27609@comp.vuw.ac.nz> brian@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Brian Boutel) writes:
>This does not make pattern matching "harmful". Pattern matching is what
>makes data-driven case analysis possible, and this is a good thing.

Are you suggesting that data-driven case analysis would otherwise
be impossible?