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

[David Kastrup]

Michael Heerdegen <address@hidden> writes:

> The syntax is very simple for its expressiveness.

So?  In ancient Greek, "you two should have started feeling a bit
ashamed of yourself" is a single word (employing the numerus Dual, the
mode Optative, the time Aorist, and a compounded word).

The syntax is very simple for its expressiveness.  There is a reason we
don't use it any more.

> But maybe I'm just obsessed by the beast.

If you want to use the syntax where no expressiveness is required
because you find it to be a nice tradeoff in case where huge amounts of
expressiveness are required, yes, you may be obsessed by it.

As it stands, we are just converging on the syntax.  It makes sense to
do that on those cases where the differences count, namely the complex
ones, so that we don't need to change the simple ones all over the map
for every change we make.

> Sorry, I give up.  pcase seems to scare off people somehow.

We don't use any constructs for the sake of using them.  We use them to
get stuff done in a manner where other people feel comfortable picking
up where we left off.  Using complex constructs for simple, well-covered
cases tends not to do that.

-- 
David Kastrup