[Grace-core] Fwd: Some notes on pattern matching on the wiki

[James Noble]

>>> Two things => two syntaxes.   Makes for easy teaching and learning.
>> 
>> Or makes for the argument that we are unnecessarily separating things that are the same.
> 
> If they were the same ... but they are not.

that's the trick: it depends on the conceptual model.
Newspeak & Self say "everything is a message send" and have a self-consistent
(albeit occasionally tortured)  conceptual model to justify that. 

I'm not quite sure why, but minigrace/js (which I've been banging on the last couple of days)
requires an explicit self.  And the code doesn't look *too* horrible! 

James