Re: A bit further toward the flamewar

[Linas Vepstas]

On 14 October 2011 03:28, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu 13 Oct 2011 23:42, Linas Vepstas <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> In the code that I work on, in (func a b), its rarely the case that a
>> and b are merely strings or lists; they're usually some fairly complex
>> structure, where e.g. 'b' is a list where car and cadr must be
>> strings, and caddr may or may not be another list, with certain
>> expectations about car, cadr, etc.
>
> In this case, I find `match' to be useful.  The structure of the pattern
> matches the structure of the input data, so it is much better than
> cadaddring down a list.

Let me demonstrate my ignorance: what pattern-matching srfi
should I be using?  Last time I looked at 'match' in scheme, it was
defined in some decades-old white paper

Pattern Matching for Scheme
http://download.plt-scheme.org/doc/103p1/pdf/match.pdf

which didn't seem to be widely used anywhere.  Are you saying that we
have this hidden somewhere inside of guile???

--linas