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Re: pcase-dolist
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: pcase-dolist |
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Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:04:19 -0400 |
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> Yes, but those don't have pcase in their name.
As mentioned earlier, I agree that the name is misleading (and it didn't
occur to me, because to me "pcase-" is just a prefix) this name is only
used because pcase-let uses the same pattern syntax and underlying
machinery as `pcase'. We could rename it to `plet' (or even to just
`let').
> Hm, when you said that a better name for `pcase-dolist' was `dolist',
> wouldn't `let(*)' be a better name for `pcase-let(*)', too?
Yes. 2 reasons why it's not done:
- just as for dolist, I haven't made that jump (yet?), it's one of those
things where there's no going back, so I need to work up my courage
and convince myself it's worthwhile.
- since `let' is currently a builtin element, and used in the expansion
of pcase-let, there are some technical details that'd need to be
resolved (the technical issues for dolist are trivial in comparison).
> It would be very useful to be able to destructure in usual lets (like,
> e.g., in Clojure).
That's why I introduced pcase-let.
> AFAICS, the only thing that `pcase-let' is lacking is the ability to
> introduce locals without providing a value, e.g.,
> (let ((x 1) b c) ...)
I tend to dislike these things, so I intentionally didn't add support
for them in pcase-let, but it'd be trivial to support them.
Stefan
- Re: pcase-dolist, (continued)
- Re: pcase-dolist, Tassilo Horn, 2015/07/09
- Re: pcase-dolist, Thierry Volpiatto, 2015/07/09
- Re: pcase-dolist, Tassilo Horn, 2015/07/09
- Re: pcase-dolist, Thierry Volpiatto, 2015/07/09
- Re: pcase-dolist, Tassilo Horn, 2015/07/09
- Re: pcase-dolist, Thierry Volpiatto, 2015/07/09
- Re: pcase-dolist, Stefan Monnier, 2015/07/09
- Re: pcase-dolist, Michael Heerdegen, 2015/07/09
- Re: pcase-dolist, Stefan Monnier, 2015/07/10
- Re: pcase-dolist, Tassilo Horn, 2015/07/10
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