On 11/05/05, Stijn De Saeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quinn Dunkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > > ... It is very natural to > > write in a somewhat functional style, especially in regards to > > sequence processing: higher order functions and listcomps provide the > > processing and its built in generators and iterator protocol provide > > some of the benefits of laziness. Its elementary pattern matching > > encourages you to return as many values from a function as you need > > and use zip() (another haskell steal) to iterate over parallel > > sequences (all pattern matches are irrefutable, though). > > I'm confused... Python has pattern matching ?
Well, we usually call it unpacking. You can only do it on sequences (maybe just tuples?), it looks like this: (x, y) = (1, 2) or this: x, y = 1, 2 -- Sam _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
