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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.org>
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Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> writes:

> > :> Some things I miss in Ada that are available in ML: Higher order
> > :> functions, pattern matching and tuples.
> >  [GNAT.SPITBOL]
> > Maybe the phrase "argument pattern matching" should be substituted
> > for "pattern matching" outside "functional communities", to avoid
> > misunderstandings.
> 
> Maybe. I was kind of teasing. I suggested GNAT.Spitbol but I may as well

You have also GNAT.Regexp and GNAT.Regpat.

Pascal.

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