I have no idea how much effort it would be, but I've found the common lisp pcond library to be useful for pattern matching and a few other use cases:
http://www.cliki.net/pcond I'd also like to see support for value based as well as structural shape based pattern matching. Regards, Kyle On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Mark Volkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm reading an excellent article on functional programming at > http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html. Toward the end there is a > section on pattern matching. They give the following example which > uses a fictional, Java-like syntax. Can Clojure do something like this > where the fib function is overloaded using "patterns" instead of > arity? > > int fib(0) { return 1; } > > int fib(1) { return 1; } > > int fib(int n) { > return fib(n - 2) + fib(n - 1); > } > > -- > R. Mark Volkmann > Object Computing, Inc. > > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wisdom and Compassion are inseparable. -- Christmas Humphreys [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://asymmetrical-view.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
