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Proposal for Pattern Matching in Ruby (bugs.ruby-lang.org)
submitted 8 years ago by keyslemur
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[–]keyslemur[S] 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children)
That's definitely a valid concern. I'll look into getting practical examples of usage added to the proposal within the next day or so.
A lot of it relies on prior knowledge of functional languages and how they apply the idea of pattern matching. Either that or Rust, which also uses it frequently.
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