From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2002-12-11T21:17:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Bit syntax

Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@integ.ru> wrote:
> Hello Martin,
> 
> Wednesday, December 11, 2002, 2:17:32 PM, you wrote:
> 
> MD> Came across this in the lambda weblog, where the poster said
> 
> MD>    The Erlang Bit Syntax extends pattern matching to (de)constructing
> MD>    chunks of binary data, such as the bit-encoded headers in network
> MD>    protocols and file formats. It's an amazingly handy language
> MD>    extension.
> 
> sorry, but ruby don't have pattern matching even for regular data
> structures. it too FP-style ;) it is not the same as regular
> expression matching (as you think)

Doh - okay, misread that. Yeah, pattern matching wouldn't work in Ruby.

martin