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Re: Three questions about pcase for Stefan
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Michael Heerdegen |
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Re: Three questions about pcase for Stefan |
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Sat, 23 Jan 2016 16:45:20 +0100 |
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Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> > 2. Do you think we can already bury the old deprecated special
> > behavior of the atoms nil and t as patterns?
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> Far from that. IIUC, it's even still used in a GNU ELPA package.
> We'll have to live with it for a reasonably long time.
Mmh, ok.
> And to tell you the truth, I don't think it's a great idea to make nil
> and t match themselves.
Why? It would be quite useful in practice, and fit perfectly into the
rest of the semantics. Of course one can still quote them...
Michael.