> In flow typing you replace the control flow part of pattern matching with `if x.is_a? Type`
Hmm, I guess flow typing lets you do an exhaustiveness check of an if-else style set of cases. Still seems like a syntactic shortcut would be nice, just as one misses "switch" in Python.
Yeah, crystal has one of those (and it's about to gain exhaustiveness checking), so I didn't literally always mean `if/else` :)
Crystal has method overloading (dynamic dispatch), which is a form of pattern matching (but not destructuring) but that's it. So I guess we have pattern matching but definitely not to the extent say haskell or elixir has it.
Visitor pattern in Crystal is just a class with a bunch of `def visit(node : Type)` and then just call `visit(foo)` and let dynamic dispatch handle the rest. The visited data structure has no knowledge about the visitor.