Pattern Matching for an Object-oriented and Dynamically Typed Programming Language

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Pattern Matching for an Object-oriented and Dynamically Typed Programming Language is written by Felix Geller and published by Universitätsverlag Potsdam. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3869560657 (ISBN 10) and 9783869560656 (ISBN 13).

Pattern matching is a well-established concept in the functional programming community. It provides the means for concisely identifying and destructuring values of interest. This enables a clean separation of data structures and respective functionality, as well as dispatching functionality based on more than a single value. Unfortunately, expressive pattern matching facilities are seldomly incorporated in present object-oriented programming languages. We present a seamless integration of pattern matching facilities in an object-oriented and dynamically typed programming language: Newspeak. We describe language extensions to improve the practicability and integrate our additions with the existing programming environment for Newspeak. This report is based on the first author’s master’s thesis.