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by noneeeed 2101 days ago
That makes sense. For a period of my career I did some Prolog and always liked the way pattern matching allowed you to write extremely descriptive code.

Funnily enough, I think pattern matching is one of the most exciting things to happen in Ruby for a long time. While it isn't on a par with functional pattern matching it's still going to be incredibly useful.