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		ngruhn 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I tried Gleam for Advent of Code Ah right, I remember now. > Guards are a bit limited in that they cannot contain function calls, I feel like that's not a small sacrifice. > but that's a problem of the BEAM and not something Gleam could control. Could Gleam desugar to a case expression like I wrote above?

zelphirkalt 5 days ago [–]

Guards also eliminate checking for whether a pattern matching is comprehensive. Or do I remember wrong and the language does not check it at all?

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