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


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things.
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 00:49:22 -0500

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  > > But I think it might be useful to define _ 
  > > as a QPattern to be equivalent to ,_.
  > > It is true that this would make it an exception among QPatterns,
  > > but one exception might be worth while.

  > I don't see much value in doing so; is it just to save a comma?

Yes.

That comma won't add much to the size of the code, and typing it is
not much work.  But I think that avoiding it would make pcase more
attractive and conceptually simpler.


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