Guards in Patterns

Guards may be added to a pattern clause via the guard keyword. A guard expression may include zero or more expressions which are evaluated only if the pattern is matched. The body of the clause is only evaluated if the guard expressions evaluate to #t.

The use of guard expressions is illustrated below:

(sxml-match '(a 2 3)
  ((a ,n) (guard (number? n)) n)
  ((a ,m ,n) (guard (number? m) (number? n)) (+ m n)))

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