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Re: Another pcase-lambda


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Another pcase-lambda
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 10:29:53 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> > BTW, what I sometimes do miss is `pcase-defun'.
>> Was that a thing that existed?
> No, it never existed, but maybe it should?  pcase argument matching is
> not only useful for anonymous functions.  I often wanted it for named
> helper functions and had to `defalias' to a `pcase-lambda'.

There a "case" to be made that all variable bindings should support the
pcase syntax (i.e. dolist should be pcase-dolist, let should be
pcase-let, ...).


        Stefan




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