[dev_sebbot]

I think about it like you're listing various definitions for what something is, given various patterns to match against. For me, this makes it more palatable because each pattern has a different operation associated with it. It's almost like binding multiple functions to one name that are called based on what you pass in, instead of creating one function to do the operation -- even though that's exactly what you're actually doing. It's declarative programming, in a way.