[plt-dev] coding ideas from JaneStreet

Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> writes:

> On Apr 12, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
>> > 5. Code for exhaustiveness (pattern matches enumerate all conditions).
>> 
>> What you can see is that almost all of these apply to programming in  
>> PLT Scheme. Well, for 8, I will defer to Sam :-)
>
> #5 isn't in use outside of my class's language(s).

I was just going to ask how do you handle 5 in PLT Scheme. How can you
force a match to actually make you exhaust all conditions?

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