My AMA is on!

[bearophile]

Andrei Alexandrescu:

> http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1nl9at/i_am_a_member_of_facebooks_hhvm_team_a_c_and_d/

The IamA is going well.

Regarding this answer of yours:

>Of the usual suspects present in FP languages, D notably misses 
>pattern matching. It is in tension with OOP-style (first match 
>vs. best match), and I'm not sure whether or not it's a 
>fundamental feature of functional style. There are no plans to 
>add such at this time.<

Adding a full pattern matching to D seems a bit much, but I think 
there are means to significantly increase the power of the D 
"final switch" with a limited amount of added complexity. The 
idea is to support switching on structs, something like the 
"unapply" standard struct/class method copied from Scala and 
perhaps variable binding.

Bye,
bearophile