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 ...

Figure 7: Pattern matching in Kotlin If he could wave a magic wand, Kim would want everyone to learn a functional programming language, so they could experience the same joy he has found.

Another concept from functional programming languages making its way to C# and VB is what’s known as pattern matching. At first glance pattern matching looks like a switch/select block, but it ...

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.