Re: Instead of pcase

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 21/11/2023 04:42, Richard Stallman wrote:
> I uderstand that when you say it, but when I saw the line
>
> >           > (`(,hookfun . (,start ,end ,collection . ,plist))
> I was not sure which part of the line that rule applies to.
>
> In particular, what is the reason for the period and inner
> parenthsses?  Why doesn't the code say this?
>
> >           > (`(,hookfun ,start ,end ,collection . ,plist)
> Would that be equiva;ent?

These are indeed equivalent.

The particular shape is chosen to follow how the data matched against 
was constructed in completion--capf-wrapper: (cons fun res). So it was 
for the ease of comprehension, actually.