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A high level programming language that compiles into the brainfuck esoteric programming language

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Pattern Matching and Match Statements #43

Open sunjay opened 7 years ago

sunjay commented 7 years ago

Pretty much required to make #41 usable.

[ ] new match statement added to grammar
[ ] pattern matching on struct fields, tuples, enum variants, etc.
[ ] Ignore struct fields with ..
[ ] Wildcard _ or identifier to match all
[ ] Multiple patterns separated by |
[ ] Bind names with @
[ ] irrefutable patterns can be used in assignment or as function parameters

Reference:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/patterns.html