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asplake on Sept 13, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: My first impressions of Gleam

Or thanks to algebraic data types and pattern matching? Even in a modest recursive descent parser, these can be really nice to use.

munchler on Sept 13, 2025 [–]

Sure, although those are great FP features for all kinds of programming, not just parsing.

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