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		albru123 on May 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A final proposal for Rust await syntax Thanks for pointing this out, I had no idea they implemented this for C# 8.0 Also is it just me or the switch pattern really is inspired by Rust match?

nixpulvis on May 6, 2019 | [–]

Pattern matching syntax across many languages is very similar, most notably inspired by ML I'd say.

anp on May 6, 2019 | [–]

Pattern matching as is in Rust has many notable precedents that IIRC the C# folks considered as prior art, not least of which being F#.

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