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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Structural unification (pattern matching) in Ada
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"(see below)" <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> On 11/08/2010 20:43, in article wcc7hjxorzs.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com,
> "Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote:
>  
>> Note that "when others" in Ada turns off the full coverage rule.
>> Similar to "_" in OCaml -- it means "none of the above".
>
> What a lovely example of the FP concision fetish.

I think it's more Unix-related. Consider the bash case statement .. it's
'*' there. And doesn't Perl have a similar construct?