Re: Instead of pcase

[Jose E. Marchesi]

> On 19/11/2023 16:29, Po Lu wrote:
>> My organization largely comprises C programmers who use Emacs for
>> programming, as a means to an end rather than an end in itself.  Our two
>> sites centrally provision their own Emacs configurations to all users,
>> which incorporates a large corpus of code for editing and analyzing C
>> programs in accord with local practice.  Naturally, the existence of
>> this corpus demands that programmers be charged with its upkeep, and as
>> no position is set aside for such work, this responsibility devolves on
>> individuals almost at random.  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.  And it is they whom I
>> canvassed.
>
> Polling professional C developers on whether they are comfortable with
> advanced syntax inspired by high-level languages like ML or Haskell is
> pretty much a self-fulfilling prophecy.
>
> Ask a company of OCaml developers (we have at least one representative
> of such among active contributors), or even a corpus of experienced
> JavaScript developers, the results will be different.

Following your own reasoning, wouldn't it be also reasonable to expect
that the vast majority of Lisp developers won't be comfortable with such
an "advanced syntax", considering that Lisp (unlike C) has basically no
syntax?

> Anyway, the results confirm what we've been aware of for some time:
> that the documentation for pcase needs work. Jim Porter's list of
> steps should help a lot.