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Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources
From: |
Andy Moreton |
Subject: |
Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 13:09:08 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (windows-nt) |
On Fri 26 Oct 2018, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Pattern matching is a useful facility, but pcase is woefully hard to use
>> correctly, as the existing (mis-)usage shows. Something that is
>> significantly easier to read and comprehend is needed.
>
> I was just pointing out that it is easy to *experiment* with new
> syntaxes (in order to find a new syntax so as to solve the current
> problems).
Sure, but you have also removed the other part of my comment. Where is
the missing documentation ? Why was it not added at the same time as the
code ? Meaningful doc strings and entries in the manual are long
overdue.
AndyM
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, (continued)
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, João Távora, 2018/10/24
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Stefan Monnier, 2018/10/24
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Richard Stallman, 2018/10/24
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Stefan Monnier, 2018/10/25
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Andy Moreton, 2018/10/25
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Stefan Monnier, 2018/10/26
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Garreau\, Alexandre, 2018/10/26
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources,
Andy Moreton <=
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Stefan Monnier, 2018/10/28
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/10/29
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Stefan Monnier, 2018/10/29
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/10/29
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Stefan Monnier, 2018/10/29
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Michael Heerdegen, 2018/10/29
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Eric Abrahamsen, 2018/10/29
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Eric Abrahamsen, 2018/10/29
- `pcase'/`case' implementation [Was: Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources], Garreau\, Alexandre, 2018/10/29
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Stefan Monnier, 2018/10/30