Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things.

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> I think we should not emphasize QPatterns and UPatterns too much,
>> because today, ``' is just a pcase macro.  When not using ``' is pcase,
>> we speak of just PATTERNs.

> If we want to do that, we need to rewrite both the ELisp manual and the doc
> string to never use these.

I'm at least fine with de-emphasizing them. They convey no information at all
(is it "Quoted" and "Unquoted"? What does that really mean, since they both
have meanings in terms of matching, beyond their quotation level).

So in a word, the two terms are almost worst than nothing. I prefer logical
and explicit matches, where a logical match compares an entity against some
form of query, while an explicit match is the special case of a query by `eq'.

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