Re: Instead of pcase

[Richard Stallman]

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  > In Lisps, most of the complexity simply moved to standard library 
  > (and/or other libraries as well).

This seems to presume a principle of "conservation of complexity", but
that is not so.  Complexity doesn't simply "move".  For example, pcase
replicates (with differences) complexity that already existed in
various Lisp functions and constructs.

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