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 414-377-1041 / http://www.joshisgross.com 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 > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
