Re: A bit further toward the flamewar

[Andy Wingo]

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.

Andy
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