Date: | Mon Nov 27 17:53:04 1995 | |
Subject: | Re: Pop-11 Pattern variables: the ANSWER?? | |
From: | Steve Knight | |
Volume-ID: | 951128.03 |
Aaron writes: > The generalisation of "valof" makes a huge difference to what you can do > with the Pop-11 pattern matcher, and makes LIB FMATCHES redundant, at > last. Sadly, lib fmatches is not made redundant. Firstly, fmatches does not suffer from the multiple segment matching defect of matches and that alone makes it indispensible. More importantly, fmatches does not suffer from the data/pattern confusion of matches which makes matches inherently dangerous. Steve |