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Re: [GSoC] Parameter protocols in CL

On 07/17/2012 06:02 PM, Charles Turner wrote: 
Although perhaps the pattern-matcher
will be able to support destructuring in an elegant way?


That is a primary goal ...
Another is more compact declarations:

(! PATTERN EXPRESSION)

Another related goal is more powerful switch/case forms, perhaps:

  (if (? PATTERN EXPRESSION)
    DO-IF-MATCH ;; variables bound in PATTERN bound here
    DO-IF-NO-MATCH)
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