I disagree that it's overkill. It's less than 1k lines (of heavily commented 
code), well tested, and you can "compile" it to save computation time. It works 
really well, too. +1

-- Joshua Gross
Christian / Web Development Consultant / BA Candidate of Computer Science, 
UW-Madison 2013
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On Jul 21, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:

> Looks awesome.  It is kind of regex on a higher level.  It would be cool if 
> the pattern matching went all the way down to real regexes.
> 
> >  people don't know how awesome pattern-matching is 
> 
> I didn't before but I can definitely see how it will be useful.  I've done 
> this the hard way many times.  One thing that pops to mind immediately is 
> returns from APIs like from Amazon.
> 
> >  Creating your own pattern matching language seems over kill. 
> 
> I don't understand.  How can you match a pattern that isn't specified?  I 
> tried to understand your code without luck, at least in my five minutes of 
> trying.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Nuno Job <[email protected]> wrote:
> Creating your own pattern matching language seems over kill. Also why not 
> just do it in plain old javascript?
> 
> https://github.com/dscape/p/tree/master/samples
> 
> Not perfect, but it works.
> 
> Nuno
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Joshua Gross <[email protected]> wrote:
> Peter, this is real cool! Sadly I don't expect it to gain much traffic 
> short-term because people don't know how awesome pattern-matching is. I'm 
> pumped to have this available in JS though; will check it out seriously. 
> 
> Joshua Gross
> Christian / SpanDeX, Inc. / BA of Computer Science, UW-Madison 2013
> 414-377-1041 / http://www.joshisgross.com / http://www.spandex.io  
> 
> 
> 
> On 15 July 2012 08:21, pb82 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> i've created a module named 'missmatch'. It allows to match arbitrarily 
> nested JavaScript values against patterns and bind values in those patterns 
> to variables (which can be used in a handler function). It's inspired by the 
> built-in pattern matching of languages like Haskell or OCaml. It's written 
> purely in JavaScript and can be used with node.js or in a browser. The 
> pattern compiler does not use eval (or the Function constructor).
> 
> It exports three functions, match, matchJSON and compile (which lets you 
> compile a pattern to a matching-function). There is a README and some usage 
> examples on the repo:
> 
> https://github.com/pb82/MissMatch
> 
> It can be installed with:
> 
> npm install missmatch
> (optional) npm test missmatch
> 
> Hope someone finds this useful :)
> 
> Regards,
> Peter
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