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Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:52:37 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>>> Couldn't we also say that a pattern with "holes" is a destructuring pattern,
>>> not matter if it is used in pcase-let, or just pcase?
>> We could, but the reason why I'm trying to define a new term (which
>> I called here "destructuring pattern") is to define what happens with
>> pcase-let, pcase-dolist, pcase-let* where the pattern is assumed
>> to match.
> I only meant to say that introducing a term that somebody fairly familiar
> with the subject might misinterpret without reading its definition in the
> manual, could be suboptimal.

Agreed.

> But don't mind me, I don't have any alternative proposals anyway.

Neither do I,


        Stefan



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