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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