Re: Instead of pcase

[Po Lu]

Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:

> 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.

And I continue to disagree, because you never did cite any evidence to
the contrary.  It is very difficult to disabuse someone of a conviction
formed through observations of his surroundings without objective
evidence contradicting them, all the more so when others online also
concur.

Besides, IMHO exclusively linguistic goals are never worth their while
in Emacs Lisp.  It is an extension language, designed to be useful and
comprehensible to users without their setting themselves to its study.