Re: Instead of pcase

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 23/11/2023 04:57, Richard Stallman wrote:
>    > This is the requirement: in some situations a code path should only be
>    > chosen when a certain structure is present and certain requirements for
>    > certain parts of the structure are fulfilled.  When you separate these
>    > two things artificially you will make the thing more complicated, you
>    > need to introduce extra bindings (for the tests) that the BODY doesn't
>    > use, resulting in poorly readable code.
>
> Would you be willing to show me two or thhree examples of this, so I
> cam make sure those are natural enough in the framework I'm designing?

I suggest you try rewriting the definition of completion-help-at-point 
using your alternative construct.

We just discussed what the pcase clauses there do, and they are small 
enough so this won't be a lot of work, while at the same time they 
exhibit several of the important features of pcase.