I was told that SJulia is broken on recent versions of Julia. This is fixed now. It should work with most versions of 0.4, 0.5, and 0.6
https://github.com/jlapeyre/SJulia.jl On Saturday, September 3, 2016 at 5:47:26 PM UTC+2, lapeyre....@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 3, 2016 at 4:13:20 PM UTC+2, Andrew Dabrowski wrote: >> >> But what about nested pattern matching, or destructuring, isn't that much >> easier in Mathematica than Julia? For example defining a function of two >> lists by >> f[{w_,x_}, {y_,z_}]:=x y/(w+z). >> >> I remember reading the Julia manifesto a few years ago, where the stated >> goal was to create a single computing language that would replace Fortran, >> scipy, Mathematica, Matlab, etc. simultaneously. I thought at the time >> that it sounded nuts. >> >> Can we all agree now that it was, in fact, nuts? >> > > This is already implemented in SJulia: > > sjulia 1> f([w_,x_], [y_,z_]) := x * y/(w+z) > > sjulia 2> f([a,b],[c,d]) > > Out(2) = b*c*((a + d)^(-1)) > > I have implemented several of Mma's pattern matching features. But, Mma's > pattern matching is sophisticated. I have not implemented, for instance, > associative-commutative matching, which Mma considers "structural" > matching. I experimented a bit with using SJulia features from julia. > Without looking at it now, I guess it would take some work to access the > pattern matching. > > Maybe you can also do this kind of destructuring matching with this > > https://github.com/toivoh/PatternDispatch.jl > > which aims to add pattern matching to method dispatch. > >
