Re: Instead of pcase

[Michael Heerdegen]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> This is a representative microcosm of the wider Emacs userbase, I
> think: for most are not hobbyists, or even employed programmers for
> whom programming is also an avocation, but men working for salaries,
> with bills to pay and families to... you can complete the rest of this
> trite description.

It is not representative for the people working on Emacs.  Even less
representative for the people working on the more complicated parts of
Emacs like the implementation of the completion mechanism.

>  And it is they whom I canvassed.
>
> I sent a poll to 34 individuals, all in some capacity involved in the
> maintenance of Emacs Lisp.  Some of the questions asked were:
> [...]

Interesting results, thanks.

This proves that the learning curve for `pcase' is steep.  As is for
Emacs.  This is not such a surprise.  Your poll doesn't measure whether
it pays off or not.

> > Interesting would be to hear concrete arguments, but we heard nearly
> > none.  "I'm angry" is not an argument.
>
> No one in this thread has been presenting indignation as an argument.

Not like "this is my argument: ...", no.  I meant I heard a lot of
emotion instead of arguments.


Michael.