This reminds me of when I was still in university.
During our compilers course we used the "Modern Compiler Implementation in Java" book. Because I was really into FP at the time, I instead used the "Modern Compiler Implementation in ML" version of this book (which was the original, the Java and C versions were made to make it more accessible).
We noticed during the course that my version was missing a whole chapter on visitors, likely because ML's pattern matching made this kind off trivial.
One of the other students made a similar remark, that software design patterns are sometimes failures of the language when they have no concise way of expressing these kinds of concepts.
One of the other students made a similar remark, that software design patterns are sometimes failures of the language when they have no concise way of expressing these kinds of concepts.