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Horribly inefficient, mostly incorrect, and underwhelming pattern matching in Ruby
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class Any; end; | |
class Pattern | |
attr :values | |
def initialize(*args) | |
@values = args | |
@matchers = [] | |
end | |
def find_match | |
matcher = @matchers.find { |matcher| matcher.match?(@values) } | |
matcher && matcher.result | |
end | |
def match(*args) | |
result = args.pop | |
@matchers << Match.new(result, args.last) | |
end | |
class Match | |
attr :result | |
def initialize(result, expected) | |
@result = result | |
@expected = expected | |
end | |
def match?(given) | |
@expected == :default || find_match?(given) | |
end | |
private | |
def find_match?(given) | |
@expected.zip(given).each do |expected_val, given_val| | |
matched = expected_val == Any || given_val == expected_val | |
return false if not matched | |
end | |
true | |
end | |
end | |
end | |
module Kernel | |
def pattern(*args, &blk) | |
pattern = Pattern.new(*args) | |
pattern.instance_eval(&blk) | |
pattern.find_match | |
end | |
end | |
# Basic example | |
val = pattern(:a, :b) do | |
match [:a, :c], "Nope" | |
match [:a, :b], "Yay!" | |
end | |
p val == "Yay!" # => true | |
# FizzBuzz | |
vals = (1..10).map do |i| | |
pattern(i % 3, i % 5) do | |
match [0, 0], "FizzBuzz" # match i%3 == 0, i%5 == 0 | |
match [0, Any], "Fizz" # match i%3 == 0, i%5 == anything | |
match [Any, 0], "Buzz" # match i%3 == anything, i%5 == 0 | |
match :default, i | |
end | |
end | |
p vals == [1,2,"Fizz",4,"Buzz","Fizz",7,8,"Fizz","Buzz"] # => true | |
class Person | |
attr_accessor :name | |
end | |
(person = Person.new).name = "Joe" | |
# TODO: Object destructuring | |
val = pattern(Person => person) do | |
match({:name => "Jack"}, "Yay!") | |
match({:name => "Joe"}, "Nope") | |
end | |
p val # => nil |
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