Pattern Matching in Ruby

[bhb]

http://blog.pretheory.com/arch/2007/11/pattern_matching_in_ruby_1.php

[nickb]

Interesting that he didn't mention Prolog... Prolog's pattern matching is one of the reasons why I still look favorably at the language as a whole.

[michaelneale → nickb]

well yeah.

actually I noticed scala has pattern matching as a first class control construct. Its pretty amazing. Just right there in the language (which is not surprising, given the functional influence in it).