A quite decent syntax and an excellent domain name!
How does $person get set?
Good catch, that should have been if person
in the first line.
It's been a left-over from when syntax looked like this:
is Person("Alice", _)$person then "{$person.age}"
is Person("Bob", $age) then "$age"
This looks very similar to The Ultimate Conditional Syntax, although that's for ML so it doesn't have the nice syntax for chaining method calls.
The author of that paper hung around in the lang design forum were I originally presented this.
Isn't match
already such a unified expression? Especially once you extend matches with guards, it seems to me like this is a solved problem. E.g.,
if x == 1.0 then "a" else "x"
is
match x with | 1.0 -> "a" | _ -> "b"
and
if x ==
1.0 then "a"
2.0 then "b"
else "z"
is (and IMO reads much clearer this way):
match x with
| 1.0 -> "a"
| 2.0 -> "b"
| _ -> "z"
and
if xs
.isEmpty then "e"
.contains(0,0) then "n"
else "z"
is
match () with
| _ when x.isEmpty -> "e"
| _ when x.contains(0,0) then "n"
| _ -> "z"
and
if person
.age < 18 then 18
is Person("Alice", _) then person.age
is Person("Bob", let age) then age
else -1
is
match person with
| _ when person.age < 10 -> 18
| Person("Alice", _) -> person.age
| Person("bob", age) -> age
| _ -> -1
.
Finally,
if person is Person("Alice", let age) then age else -1
Would be the simple
match person with
| Person("Alice", age) -> age
| _ -> -1
Seems to me this reads more clear in general and has less magic. Plus, it's already implemented in a bunch of languages.
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