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Re: Question on pcase


From: Michael Heerdegen
Subject: Re: Question on pcase
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 22:39:51 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Przemysław Wojnowski <address@hidden> writes:

> I don't understand one thing. If "pcase" in an implementation of
> Pattern Matching, then why it is called "pcase" not "pmatch"?

`pcase' itself is just one macro that pcase.el defines that makes use of
pattern matching.  I guess the name means Pattern (matching) Case,
because it's syntax and semantic is similar to `cl-case', just with
pattern matching.


Michael.



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