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Re: pcase ` meaning
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Clément Pit-Claudel |
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Re: pcase ` meaning |
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Thu, 1 Nov 2018 09:22:36 -0400 |
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On 31/10/2018 19.13, Garreau, Alexandre wrote:
> In lisp I would have prefered to be able to directly quote each symbol,
> and have this to work, eg: “(pcase (list 1 2 3) (('a 'b 'c) t))” to
> return nil, and “(pcase (list 'a 'b 'c) (('a 'b 'c) t))” to return t
> (and this is like many other lisp pattern-matching implementations
> already work). In current pcase, pattern “(a b c)” does *not* mean
> “with symbols 'a, 'b and 'c”.
But remember that this breaks the pattern-body symmetry:
(pcase (list 'a 'b 'c) (('a 'b 'c) ('a 'b 'c)))
would match, but the body would raise an error.
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