[erlang-in-lisp-devel] fare-match question

[Dan Bensen]

Matt Bone wrote:
> are our pattern matching requirements so minimal that 
> a) it does not matter and b) we could even roll our own
> ala some of the Norvig examples?

According to one of the tutorials[*], Erlang patterns support variable
repetition.  I think Fare mentioned using existing Erlang test code,
so that might be an issue.

--Dan

[*] http://www.erlang.org/course/sequential_programming.html#patterns

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