We looked at the basic features of functional programming with Visual F#. In this second part, we take it a bit farther and look at creating anonymous functions, pattern matching, and other features ...

Pattern Matching and Recursion Instead of a series of if-then-else statements, a pattern matching statement compares an argument with a list to find a match.

Functional paradigm allows for pattern matching. Recursion, iteration is accomplished through recursion. Lazy evaluation -- an expression is evaluated only when required. Functional programming has ...

The pattern-matching syntax introduced in Python 3.10 allows for powerful new programming techniques for decision-making in apps.

A proposal under consideration by Python’s development team would finally bring pattern matching statements to the language.