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Re:Why use Clojure? by wonderzombie on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @06:44PM (#6964724)
Of course. That said, Clojure doesn't have those, given that it has a dynamic type system and destructuring instead of pattern matching (not as clean, IMHO), so a comparison to Haskell in this respect is less useful.
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Re:Why use Clojure? by catnaroek on Thursday December 26, 2013 @02:20PM (#6967549)
My point was that it is perfectly possible to be familiar with Haskell and find Clojure (and Lisps in general) puzzling.

On the other hand, I would be genuinely surprised if someone familiar with Haskell were unable to pick up ML, or vice versa.

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Re:Why use Clojure? by dkersten on Thursday December 26, 2013 @06:56PM (#6968719)
If you want pattern matching, check out core.match
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Re:Why use Clojure? by catnaroek on Friday December 27, 2013 @01:11AM (#6969590)
Where is the exhaustiveness checking?
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