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Defining a Pattern Matching Language Feature for Ada

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Structural pattern-matching as a language feature has become more common in programming languages over the past decade. This talk will report on the work in progress to define such a feature for the Ada language, both from a language-design point of view, and from an implementation point of view.

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    cover image ACM SIGAda Ada Letters
    ACM SIGAda Ada Letters  Volume 42, Issue 1
    June 2022
    67 pages
    ISSN:1094-3641
    DOI:10.1145/3577949
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