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Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things.
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Michael Heerdegen |
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Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things. |
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Thu, 24 Dec 2015 20:10:40 +0100 |
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John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:
> They are both terrible names. Even knowing exactly what they, they
> don't help me to think about pcase.
Indeed.
The doc of pcase now uses only "QPAT" as name of a meta variable
describing the syntax of `. I find that acceptable, but a better name
might be good.
The manual needs to be updated anyway... though this paragraph:
,----------------------------------------------------------------------
| There are two kinds of patterns involved in ‘pcase’, called
| _U-patterns_ and _Q-patterns_. The UPATTERN mentioned above are
| U-patterns and can take the following forms:
|
| ‘`QPATTERN’
| [...]
`----------------------------------------------------------------------
somewhat makes me smile ;-)
Michael.
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., (continued)
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Richard Stallman, 2015/12/20
- RE: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Phillip Lord, 2015/12/20
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Richard Stallman, 2015/12/21
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Phillip Lord, 2015/12/21
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., John Wiegley, 2015/12/22
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Michael Heerdegen, 2015/12/20
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Michael Heerdegen, 2015/12/20
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Phillip Lord, 2015/12/20
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Michael Heerdegen, 2015/12/24
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., John Wiegley, 2015/12/24
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things.,
Michael Heerdegen <=
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Phillip Lord, 2015/12/19
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/18
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Michael Heerdegen, 2015/12/19
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., John Wiegley, 2015/12/22
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Michael Heerdegen, 2015/12/19
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/19
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/19
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Michael Heerdegen, 2015/12/19
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., Michael Heerdegen, 2015/12/19
- Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things., John Wiegley, 2015/12/22