On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Sandro Magi <[email protected]> wrote:
> * first-class everything: basically, languages based on something like > the pattern calculus whereby every value is classified as either an atom > or a compound of atoms, and usual pattern matching can deconstruct > everything piecewise. We dropped pattern matching from BitC after a while. I no longer remember why, unless it was merely that it was too hard to implement at the time. I do remember that multi-argument procedures and pattern matching didn't seem to get along well. shap
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