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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 387e1e1: New version of `seq-let' based on a pc


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 387e1e1: New version of `seq-let' based on a pcase pattern
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 00:15:05 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> +      (pcase-defmacro seq (bindings)
> +        `(and ,@(seq--make-pcase-bindings bindings)))

If you put a docstring in there, it will appear in "C-h f pcase RET", so
you can use it to document the particular format you support.

Also I see the following problems:
- You only accept the form (seq <binding>) rather than (seq <binding1>
  <binding2> ...), so typical cases will have to use (seq (a b)) instead
  (seq a b).
- The above pcase pattern doesn't check that it's indeed a `seq'.
  You should add a (pred seq-p).  It will automatically be optimized
  away in `pcase-let', but is indispensable for the `pcase' situation to
  do the right thing.

> +(defun seq--make-pcase-bindings (args &optional bindings nested-indexes)
[...]
> +    (seq-doseq (name args)
> +      (unless rest-marker
> +        (pcase name
> +          ((pred seq-p)

IIUC, this means that (pcase-let (((seq a (seq b c)) <obj>)) <body>)
will bind the `seq' variable to the first element of the nested sequence
(and `a' to the second and `b' to the third), whereas I think it should
bind `b' to the first element of the nested sequence (which is what
would happen if you simply removed this branch of this `pcase').
I think removing this case will also remove the need for seq--nested-elt.

> +           (push `(app (seq--reverse-args #'seq--nested-elt
> +                                          (reverse (cons ,index 
> ',nested-indexes)))
> +                       ,name)

This reverse plus seq--reverse-args business seems
hideously inefficient.  Why do you need that?


        Stefan



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