I certainly don't have any use cases to hand. The ability to match strings was
motivated by use cases involving text-to-XML conversion, and it was
generalized to an ability to match anything in the interests of
orthogonality.

Michael Kay
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On 5 Dec 2014, at 20:36, Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am trying to imagine doing something interesting with a template
> that matches a function, and this seems challenging.
>
> Does anyone know when such processing could be useful?
>
> Cheers,
> Dimitre Novatchev