Re: ML-style pattern matching in C-like languages

> Have there been any proposals or prototypes built
> for introducing some form of ML-style pattern matching
> in C-like languages?


You might find this interesting: http://tom.loria.fr/


From the "About TOM" page:


"Tom is language extension which adds a new matching primitives to C
and Java: %match. This construct is similar to the match primitive
found in functional languages: given a term (called subject) and a
list of pairs: pattern-action, the match primitive selects a pattern
that matches the subject and performs the associated action. This
construct may thus be seen as an extension of the classical
switch/case construct. The main difference is that the discrimination
occurs on a term and not on atomic values like characters or integers:
the patterns are used to discriminate and retrieve information from an
algebraic data structure. Therefore, Tom is a good language for
programming by pattern matching."

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