Someone can make a macro for Mathematica's pattern matching syntax.
On Saturday, September 3, 2016 at 7:13:20 AM UTC-7, Andrew Dabrowski wrote:
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> But what about nested pattern matching, or destructuring, isn't that much
> easier in Mathematica than Julia? For example defining a function of two
> lists by
> f[{w_,x_}, {y_,z_}]:=x y/(w+z).
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> I remember reading the Julia manifesto a few years ago, where the stated
> goal was to create a single computing language that would replace Fortran,
> scipy, Mathematica, Matlab, etc. simultaneously. I thought at the time
> that it sounded nuts.
>
> Can we all agree now that it was, in fact, nuts?
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