[plt-dev] struct match-expander a la struct-copy

Just to clarify, I don't think this should replace the existing struct
form, but I think it is useful and wanted enough to warrant being
included in scheme/match

Jay

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:55 AM, John Clements
<clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>
> On Jun 3, 2009, at 8:12 AM, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The structure patterns in scheme/match have always bugged me that they
>>> didn't let you put the fields in any order and you had to put in _ for
>>> the fields you didn't care about.
>
> IIUC, the proposal would allow you to leave out fields without a warning.
>  This strikes me as potentially dangerous, especially if this stuff is used
> in the teaching languages.  I actually recall some discussion of this on the
> OCaml list (OCaml behaves in this way, IIUC), and some were suggesting that
> a slightly different form be required for an incomplete match.
>
> John
>
>



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