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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Thuna <thuna.cing@gmail.com>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
	72328@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#72328: [PATCH] Nested backquote in pcase
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2024 14:13:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86o765q4yo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5hqzrxg.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Thuna on Mon, 05 Aug 2024 21:32:43 +0200)

> From: Thuna <thuna.cing@gmail.com>
> Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 72328@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2024 21:32:43 +0200
> 
> >> Note that I do not believe that there are no people who would be
> >> effected by this, positively or negatively.
> >
> > We've learned from bitter experience that such arguments are usually
> > false.  IOW, we don't really know enough to make such assertions.
> 
> I think there is a misunderstanding.  I am not saying that there isn't
> anyone who would be effected by this, it is the opposite.  I understand
> that this will effect people, and I agree that at minimum there needs to
> be a decent period where the current behavior is maintained but marked
> as obsolete.

How do you envision making such a behavior change in a way that will
leave the current behavior still maintained (and obsolete)?

> An indefinite feature-freeze is where I have a problem.

Disagreeing with a specific change is not tantamount to an indefinite
feature-freeze.  It is quite possible that someone will come up with a
different idea of a change, which we will be able to reconcile easier
with the previous behavior.

> >> (defun macroexp-null (exp)
> >>   "Return non-nil if EXP will always evaluate to nil.
> >> This form does not take non-local exits or side-effects into account."
> >>   (pcase exp
> >>     ((or 'nil ''nil '#'nil '`nil ``,,(pred macroexp-null))
> >>      t)))
> >> 
> >> which without this change would read as:
> >> 
> >> (defun macroexp-null (exp)
> >>   "Return non-nil if EXP will always evaluate to nil.
> >> This form does not take non-local exits or side-effects into account."
> >>   (pcase exp
> >>     ((or 'nil ''nil '#'nil '`nil
> >>          `(,'\` (,'\, ,(pred macroexp-null))))
> >>      t)))
> >
> > Thanks, now you just need to explain why you needed this code and what
> > did its caller do to require this.
> 
> I do not understand what you are asking for.  Whether `macroexp-null'
> should exist or not, what it is trying to do should be fairly clear, so
> should the way in which it benefits from the changed behavior.

I asked to explain _why_ you need this.  Risking to say the obvious, a
program exists to do some job, and a function like the above is
therefore part of some larger job.  We are asking you to describe the
higher-level context, which we could then use to try to decide whether
the need is important enough to justify the backward-incompatible
change.

> I also cannot provide any justification for this patch above and beyond
> what I have already mentioned in my initial message: This patch
> establishes a symmetry between pcase's backquote pattern and quasiquote,
> which allows trivially matching against the result of a quasiquote form.

We would like to hear reasons for wanting this.

> I would appreciate it if you would state your opinion on this patch,
> putting aside concerns of backwards compatibility for a moment.  I am
> working under the assumption that this is an improvement and is
> desirable, yet I have not yet heard from you or Stefan as to whether you
> see it that way or not.

I believe Stefan did say that.  Me, my only stake here is the concern
of backwards compatibility, which is why I'm talking only about that.

Thanks.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-08-06 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-28  0:40 bug#72328: [PATCH] Nested backquote in pcase Thuna
2024-07-28 14:52 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-28 15:51   ` Thuna
2024-07-28 16:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-28 16:20       ` Thuna
2024-07-29 16:03     ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-29 16:45       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-30  7:45         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-03  0:07           ` Thuna
2024-08-03  5:59             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-03 13:22               ` Thuna
2024-08-04 17:10                 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-04 21:27                   ` Thuna
2024-08-05 11:52                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-05 19:32                       ` Thuna
2024-08-06  8:21                         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-06 11:13                         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-08-06 13:09                           ` Thuna
2024-08-07  3:33                             ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-07 11:53                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-07 17:34                               ` Thuna
2024-08-08  5:57                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-23  3:25                                   ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-23 14:49                                     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-23 16:04                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-23 19:11                                         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-23 19:29                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-07  7:18                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-07 12:24                                               ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-21  9:03                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-22 13:30                                                 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-22 14:16                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-22 15:21                                                     ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-23 11:16                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-24 18:02                                                         ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-25 19:04                                                           ` Adam Porter
2024-09-26  6:13                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-26 14:05                                                             ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-26 20:41                                                               ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-23 20:19                                         ` Thuna
2024-07-29 17:43       ` Thuna
2024-07-29 19:05         ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-29 20:45         ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-07-29 20:59           ` Thuna
2024-07-30 17:53             ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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