Re: Instead of pcase

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Interesting.  `pcase` is a macro, so it does not see the above
  > characters, it only sees the resulting Sexp returned by the Lisp reader,
  > and as you may remember, the reader returns *exactly* the same Sexp
  > for the above two lines of text.

You're right, but I didn't see that, because I was thinking of it as
part of a pcase construct and assumed it would produce some unknown
code to do the matching.  I didn't see that pcase and backwuote itself
would not notice the difference.

For me, pcase shines a cone of mystery.

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