Re: Instead of pcase

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 21/11/2023 01:43, Po Lu wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:
>
> > Polling professional C developers on whether they are comfortable with
> > advanced syntax inspired by high-level languages like ML or Haskell is
> > pretty much a self-fulfilling prophecy.
> >
> > Ask a company of OCaml developers (we have at least one representative
> > of such among active contributors), or even a corpus of experienced
> > JavaScript developers, the results will be different.
>
> How many O'Caml developers are there?  It's not plausible that they
> number greater than C developers (for that matter I don't think there's
> any O'Caml software on my computer).

OCaml -- maybe not that many. But the sum total of developers writing in 
high-level languages (JavaScript included) is quite high.

Ruby and Python have pattern matching in that style. Rust and Swift do too.

JS might be getting one in a few years: 
https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pattern-matching

Java introduced limited/experimental support this year: 
https://openjdk.org/jeps/432

Even the C++ standard might get it one day: 
https://www.stroustrup.com/pattern-matching-November-2014.pdf (libraries 
already available)