[plt-scheme] Yet another cute idea

From: Noel Welsh (noelwelsh at yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Sep 27 16:39:39 EDT 2002

--- Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> There is one single feature that it has, that Scheme
> doesn't but I
> really wish it had, and that most modern language I
> hear about have as
> well (ML, Haskell, and yes, even Perl).  This
> feature is usage of
> pattern matching to introduce new bindings, probably
> the one I miss
> most from ML.  

Now hold on one cotton-pickin' minute boy!  We got
match-let, match-let* and match-letrec.  Durn me if
they don't provide pattern matching to introduce new
bindings.  Sheesh, you kids think you know
everything...

Grandpa-Noel, who programmed with S and K patch-boards
when he was a boy

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