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		nextaccountic on April 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go 1.21 will (likely) have a static toolchain on L... Yes, pattern matching (with destructuring) would be a small addition to the language, and it would be awesome, even without sum types

eru on April 11, 2023 [–]

Python had that kind of pattern matching for ages, but only recently got pattern matching on something like sum-types.

I only found that previous kind of pattern matching useful occasionally. But I guess I would miss it a lot, if it was gone?

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