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Re: Update of pcase docs for the elisp manual
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Update of pcase docs for the elisp manual |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:10:47 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
> - Is there any way we can get rid of the phrases QPattern and UPattern?
> There's decades of prior literature on pattern matching in functional
> languages, and none of them use "QPattern" and "UPattern". We're inventing
> terms that make no sense at all to newcomers, except for the single-letter
> correspondence with "quoted" and "unquoted". What if we just call them
> "quoted patterns" and "unquoted patterns", if that is what we mean?
FWIW, in the current docsring of pcase I just call unquoted patterns
"patterns" (what an idea, eh?), but I still use "QPAT" in the part that
describes the backquote pattern.
Stefan
Re: Update of pcase docs for the elisp manual, Michael Heerdegen, 2016/01/25
Re: Update of pcase docs for the elisp manual, John Wiegley, 2016/01/26
- Re: Update of pcase docs for the elisp manual,
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- Re: Update of pcase docs for the elisp manual, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/26
- Re: Update of pcase docs for the elisp manual, John Wiegley, 2016/01/26
- Re: Update of pcase docs for the elisp manual, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/26
- Re: Update of pcase docs for the elisp manual, John Wiegley, 2016/01/28
- Re: Update of pcase docs for the elisp manual, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/29
- Re: Update of pcase docs for the elisp manual, Andy Moreton, 2016/01/29
- Re: Update of pcase docs for the elisp manual, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/29
- Re: Update of pcase docs for the elisp manual, Andy Moreton, 2016/01/29
- Re: Update of pcase docs for the elisp manual, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/29
Re: Update of pcase docs for the elisp manual, Andy Moreton, 2016/01/26