Re: Using "pcase" as part of names is inhelpful.

[Richard Stallman]

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  > RS> We could use 'plet' and 'plambda'. Or 'pattern-let' and 
'pattern-lambda'.

  > I prefer the latter two, and agree that pcase-let is inaccurately named.

If they are unusual and obscure, 'pattern-...' are better.
If they are widely used and all Emacs Lisp programmers know about them,
'p...' are better.

  > Racket uses the names "match-let" and "match-lambda",

Those names are reasonable, too -- but they would not be similar
to 'pcase'.

Should we rename 'pcase' to 'match-case'?  In principle there is nothing
wrong with that.  But if we expect all these names to become everyday
Lisp usage, we'd be better off with 'p'.

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