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Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources


From: Andy Moreton
Subject: Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 13:09:08 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (windows-nt)

On Fri 26 Oct 2018, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> Pattern matching is a useful facility, but pcase is woefully hard to use
>> correctly, as the existing (mis-)usage shows.  Something that is
>> significantly easier to read and comprehend is needed.
>
> I was just pointing out that it is easy to *experiment* with new
> syntaxes (in order to find a new syntax so as to solve the current
> problems).

Sure, but you have also removed the other part of my comment. Where is
the missing documentation ? Why was it not added at the same time as the
code ? Meaningful doc strings and entries in the manual are long
overdue.

    AndyM




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