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		sitkack on Sept 27, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John Carmack on Inlined Code If you get tired of the switch statement, pattern matching is the functional dual of polymorphic dispatch.

eru on Sept 29, 2014 [–]

Even though, pattern matching (and algebraic datatypes) would work just as well in an imperative language as in a function setting.

(Not sure, whether you'd need garbage collection to make pattern matching really useful, though.

sitkack on Sept 29, 2014 | [–]

Pattern matching is welcomed everywhere, it saves conditionals and keeps the code clean.

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