Algebraic Data Types are almost always one of the things I miss when I use imperative languages. I have to do Java at work, and while I've kind of come around on Java and I don't think it's quite as bad as I have accused it of being, there's been several dozen instances of "man I wish Java had F#'s discriminated unions".
Obviously I'm aware that you can spoof it with a variety of techniques, and often enums are enough for what you need, but most of those techniques lack the flexibility and terseness of proper ADTs; if nothing else those techniques don't have the sexy pattern matching that you get with a functional language.
This C extension looks pretty sweet since it appears to have the pattern matching I want; I'll see if I can use it for my Arduino projects.
Algebraic Data Types are almost always one of the things I miss when I use imperative languages. I have to do Java at work, and while I've kind of come around on Java and I don't think it's quite as bad as I have accused it of being, there's been several dozen instances of "man I wish Java had F#'s discriminated unions".
Obviously I'm aware that you can spoof it with a variety of techniques, and often enums are enough for what you need, but most of those techniques lack the flexibility and terseness of proper ADTs; if nothing else those techniques don't have the sexy pattern matching that you get with a functional language.
This C extension looks pretty sweet since it appears to have the pattern matching I want; I'll see if I can use it for my Arduino projects.