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Pattern Matching vs. Destructuring… to the death!

Jan 12, 2011 some comments

In my post about unification vs. pattern matching I included a little footnote about how the creator of Matchure is probably often asked how pattern matching differs from Clojure’s destructuring. This footnote was an attempt to draw the elusive author out and comment on the subject. Since my attempt was a failure, I decided to […]

Unification versus Pattern Matching… to the death!

Dec 14, 2010 some comments

The number one question asked of me at The Conj1 was: what is unification?. Once I explained what unification was and how clojure.core.unify implemented it, the follow-up question was inevitably: how is unification different from pattern matching?. You see, Drew Colthorp wrote a fantastic pattern matching library called Matchure that creates bindings based on the […]

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