Re: Instead of pcase

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > In particular, what is the reason for the period and inner
  > > parenthsses?  Why doesn't the code say this?


  > > >          > (`(,hookfun ,start ,end ,collection . ,plist)

  > I would think the author is simply emphasizing that [perse is] parsing an
  > entity in an association list for which hookfun is a key.

You may well be right about per intensions, and it is possible that a
person who already fully understands what this code is doing would
have realized that immediately.

But a person who is just starting to look at this code, and reads that
function first, is likely to be impeded in starting to reach that sort
of understanding.

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