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uriel on July 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go Rocks - How Can We Avoid Something This Bad In ...

Channels + select are a pretty good replacement for what one usually uses pattern matching in Erlang.

There are pros and cons for both models, but they are roughly equivalent and I never missed pattern matching in Go.

ootachi on July 10, 2011 [–]

Pattern matching isn't just a feature to aid concurrent programming; it's extremely helpful for all sorts of code. However, since Go doesn't have unions (either tagged or unsafe), pattern matching in Go wouldn't be particularly powerful anyway.

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