Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources (was: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things.)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Heerdegen <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,
>     Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 15:04:45 +0200
> 
> Some time (two years) ago I volunteered to replace lots of the `pcase'
> occurrences in the Emacs sources (back) to cl-case where possible.  Lots
> of people wanted this because they found understanding pcase expressions
> hard.
> 
> I would like to do that now.

Thank you.  If you find places where pcase is used, but a simple cond
will do (without obfuscating the code, of course), please use cond
where appropriate.

> Or has the mood of people changed in the meantime due to the improved
> documentation of `pcase'?

Mine didn't (and I do appreciate the improvement in the docs).

> A question: when I compose the commit message, I can write something
> like "Change all affected callers in all files" instead of listing all
> individual changed functions separately, right?

"All callers changed" is the usual wording.