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Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 fb7c581: Minor correction to pcase docstring


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 fb7c581: Minor correction to pcase docstring
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:46:32 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux)

> +of values.  For example, the pattern (foo bar) matches any two

Hmm...no.

>  meaning they must match exactly: The pattern (\\='foo \\='bar)
>  matches only against two element lists containing the symbols

Hmm...still not.

If you want (...) to mean "the pattern that matches a list ..." then you
need a backquote in front:

  `(foo bar) matches a list containing the symbols `foo' and `bar'.

  `(,foo ,bar) matches any two-element list.

The intuition is that the pattern matches elements that could be the
result of evaluating an expression of the same shape.


        Stefan



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