On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 23:58 -0700, bradford cross wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Michel Salim > <michael.silva...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 23:00 -0700, bradford cross wrote: > > > > > Destructuring is useful all over the place, not just for > pattern > > matching. For example, it is really useful in function > parameter > > vectors. > > > I consider that to be an example of pattern matching, though. > > As far as I understand it. Pattern matching is built from > destructuring bind, but destructuring bind is not pattern matching. > Pattern matching follows a match-when-return, or match-with-return > logical flow written as: [match_val] -> return_val > Fair enough; I guess it's just that, prior to Clojure, you tend to get one with the other (thus pattern-matching functional language let you both bind or match, both within a function and (for Haskell, at least) in the function declaration as well.
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