[Openmcl-devel] matching patterns

[Taoufik Dachraoui]

Hi

I understand your skepticism about accepting match into CCL, but we can
consider cond as
a general and portable stuff. Many languages have a pattern matching built
into the language.
I believe it is very useful and it is deplorable (for me at least) that
there is no pattern matching
built into CCL that is very efficient

I think the match I wrote is concise and it looks beautiful (I do not know
about the implementation),
it remains to see if it is as I see it, that is why I wanted to contribute
the code and see how it can be
viewed by experts; if I was a CCL expert I would hack it and add match to
the language, but
unfortunately I am not.

Kind regards
Taoufik

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Greg Pfeil <greg at clozure.com> wrote:

> On 3 Oct 2012, at 13:25, Taoufik Dachraoui <dachraoui.taoufik at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > My intention was just to contribute with the code to CCL so that it
> could be improved
> > by CCL experts and finally be part of CCL; I use CCL for all my
> developments
> > and lately I am using a lot the match I wrote, but I know that it can be
> greatly
> > improved (eg. performance, more beautiful code, more robust, ...)
>
> It is extremely unlikely that any general and portable stuff like this
> would be accepted into CCL. It's much better to try to get it into
> Quicklisp, which makes it easily available to any Common Lisp user,
> regardless of whether they use CCL, SBCL, or something else.
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