If I remove the line [{:a 1 :c _}] :a1 it returns :a-1 .. So, I guess it
means that the behavior is undefined if there are multiple matches.
Sunil.
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Sunil S Nandihalli <
sunil.nandiha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> I was playing with core.match library and I notice the following behavior
>
> let [x {:a 1 :b 2 :c 10 :d 30}]
> (match [x]
> [({:a _ :b _ :c _ :d _} :only [:a :b :c :d])] :a-1
> [({:a _ :b 2} :only [:a :b])] :a0
> [{:a 1 :c _}] :a1
> [{:c 3 :d _ :e 4}] :a2
> :else []))
>
> returns
> :a1
> I was hoping to get
> :a-1
>
> Am I using it wrong? Have I misunderstood as to how match is supposed to
> work? It looks like match assumes either that there is always a unique match
> or it does not guarantee that it will the try matches in the order
> specified. Can somebody help?
>
> Thanks,
> Sunil.
>
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