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by ceteia 120 days ago
Are you really OK with runtime "expression patterns"?

    match (0, 1, 2) {
      case (F(), 0, G()) => ...
    }
> Here (F(), 0, G()) is not an expression, but three separate expressions in a tuple pattern. As a result, this code will call F() but not G(), because the mismatch between the middle tuple elements will cause pattern matching to fail before reaching G(). Other than this short-circuiting behavior, a tuple pattern of expression patterns behaves the same as if it were a single expression pattern.

How would that work with exhaustiveness checking? As far as I can tell, they themselves believe that Carbon's exhaustiveness checking will be very poor.

And OK with implicit conversions? Especially when combined with their way of handling templates for pattern matching?

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As mentioned I have no interest in ever using Carbon, the language still isn't 1.0, and full end to end compiler is yet to be made available.