Re: Instead of pcase

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 21/11/2023 06:04, Po Lu wrote:
> > > But don't argue that this cost does not exist, simply because it
> > > doesn't feel like a burden to you.
> > Did I?
> That's how it came across to me.  "The burden is immaterial since many
> categories of programmers do not perceive it as such" is not much
> different from "the burden does not exist," when the inferences drawn
> from both are identical, to wit: that pcase is fine as it is.

I never said that the cost doesn't exist. But one could ask whether it 
is a useful cost, overall, one that helps reduce the complexity of the 
code around it (one pays the cost when reading verbose code, too). Which 
might depend on how much one would have to work to understand to construct.

You provided statistics about your coworkers who are all used to working 
with low-level code, and then claimed that those should be 
representative of the Emacs userbase as a whole. I countered that.