Hello Martin,

Wednesday, December 11, 2002, 2:17:32 PM, you wrote:

MD> Came across this in the lambda weblog, where the poster said

MD>    The Erlang Bit Syntax extends pattern matching to (de)constructing
MD>    chunks of binary data, such as the bit-encoded headers in network
MD>    protocols and file formats. It's an amazingly handy language
MD>    extension.

sorry, but ruby don't have pattern matching even for regular data
structures. it too FP-style ;) it is not the same as regular
expression matching (as you think)

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