Enhanced type guard syntax]

[Peter-Henry Mander]

Okay, how about going to extremes:

   f({{dictionary,store},X},{{dictionary,key},Y}) ->

Now you know they are related (-: and you can do a general case:

   f({{dictionary,_whatever},Thing}) ->

I would agree that my example is not practical, but it may seed another 
idea from someone?

Pete.

Thomas Arts wrote:
>>perhaps this:
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>>     f({list_of_integers,X}) ->
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> this is inflexible for a type checker. The tuple notation is fine, but
> the verbose way of writing the atom hides the semantics.
> This is very clear in:
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>>     f({dictionary_of_key_value_pairs,X},{key_for_dictionary,Y}) ->
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> How do you know that there is a relation between the key in the first atom
> and the key in the second atom? They might refer to completely different
> things. That is where variables come in.
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> /Thomas
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