Match with symbols

[jakesnell]

I can't seem to figure out how get match to work with symbols. Here is my attempt with Hy 0.25.0 using CPython(main) 3.11.0:

=> (match 'paper
...   'rock 'win
...   'scissors 'lose
...   'paper 'draw)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "stdin-d863505ec44612e7c4bb8553e11080f06b1530c4", line 1, in <module>
    (match 'paper

NameError: name 'quote' is not defined

It's not that quote is completely missing, because I can use it to define symbols outside of a match:

=> 'rock
'rock
=> (quote rock)
'rock

On the other hand, the same match works for strings:

=> (match "paper"
...   "rock" "win"
...   "scissors" "lose"
...   "paper" "draw")
"draw"

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

[Kodiologist]

Python limits what is allowed as a pattern in a match statement, and Hy doesn't try to extend this. In particular, Hy won't try to expand macro calls in a pattern, and 'rock is just syntactic sugar for calling the macro quote. I don't know what your real situation is, but I bet you'd be happier with Hyrule's case or branch.

[jakesnell]

Hyrule's case looks like what I need! Thanks for the tip and for the explanation regarding match.