core.match will attempt to optimize matching :when clauses in the decision
tree.

David

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 4:18 PM, retnuH <ret...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't really figure out what the deal is with predicates.  They're not
> mentioned in the Basic/Advanced usage wiki pages at all.  The code for
> Guards and Predicates is basically identical.
>
> The only difference that I've been able to find (beyond the spelling,
> obviously):
>
> - predicates can only be symbols, i.e. they can't be function declarations
> (#() or (fn))
>
> - predicates have to be pre-declared with defpred
>
> Am I missing something?  Is there some use case that predicates fill that
> guards don't?
>
> Cheers,
>
> H
>
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