Re: pcase: Semantics of atom QPATS

[Noam Postavsky]

On 16 June 2018 at 03:32, Michael Heerdegen <address@hidden> wrote:

>> > -   ((or (stringp qpat) (integerp qpat) (symbolp qpat)) `',qpat)
>> > +   ((or (stringp qpat) (numberp qpat) (symbolp qpat)) `',qpat)
>>
>> Any reasons to use numberp and not number-or-marker-p?
>
> Is it likely that someone constructs a pcase pattern with a literal
> marker in it?  Note this is about the pattern, not about the matched
> value.

It would be pretty difficult to do that since markers don't have a
read syntax. It's possible using a macro which expands to a pcase
form, if you can handle the nested backquotes...