Re: combining cond and let, to replace pcase.

[Gerd Möllmann]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
>> Cc: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2023 12:20:20 +0100
>> 
>> To sum up, I question your premise of this discussion.
>
> Don't.  It's a real issue.  Maybe not for you, but for some others.
> No one in their right mind would assume that Richard has "a problem
> understanding the abstract approach".  Just look at which pieces of
> software he wrote and the various DSLs he designed while at that.  So
> when Richard, of all the people, tells us there's a problem, I suggest
> that we listen, especially since a few other veteran Emacs developers,
> who are not unfamiliar with Emacs Lisp and its subtleties, tell
> something similar if not identical.

One should always listen, almost always anyway, IMO. You named a few
reasons.

But to the full truth also belongs that Richard has stopped programming
completely in 2008, says he himself, and that he doesn't seem to be very
familiar with current Elisp, if he's seen pcase for the first time a few
days ago. One must keep that in mind.