Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things.

[Michael Heerdegen]

John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:

> They are both terrible names. Even knowing exactly what they, they
> don't help me to think about pcase.

Indeed.

The doc of pcase now uses only "QPAT" as name of a meta variable
describing the syntax of `.  I find that acceptable, but a better name
might be good.

The manual needs to be updated anyway... though this paragraph:

,----------------------------------------------------------------------
|    There are two kinds of patterns involved in ‘pcase’, called
| _U-patterns_ and _Q-patterns_.  The UPATTERN mentioned above are
| U-patterns and can take the following forms:
| 
| ‘`QPATTERN’
|  [...]
`----------------------------------------------------------------------


somewhat makes me smile ;-)


Michael.