From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 31311@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31311: 27.0; doc of `pcase'
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 20:31:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efixlv8g.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wowqrmp8.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 29 Apr 2018 19:39:47 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> It seems that no one really cares to document this facility. Maybe
> 'pcase' is seen as a kind of test: if you succeed in using and
> understanding it without any clear documentation, you are admitted to
> certain quarters where only wizards can enter.
>
> What you see in the manual is mostly the result of desperate efforts
> of a single individual to have something remotely palatable in our
> documentation.
My impression was more that there were diametral conceptions of how a
good documentation would look like. And there _has_ been some
improvements of the original (sparse) docs, I now find the docstring of
the macro itself quite good (and complete). The texts in the manual are
not so good for otoh, I agree.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-29 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-29 16:03 bug#31311: 27.0; doc of `pcase' Drew Adams
2018-04-29 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-29 18:31 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2018-04-29 18:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-29 20:05 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-04-30 2:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-30 11:20 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-04-30 13:35 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2018-04-30 16:58 ` Drew Adams
2018-04-30 18:04 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-01 9:41 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2018-04-30 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-12 11:18 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2018-05-12 13:54 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-15 14:24 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2018-05-15 15:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-16 10:43 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2018-05-16 15:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-05-20 18:59 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2018-05-23 13:55 ` Drew Adams
2018-05-23 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-23 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-23 19:16 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2018-05-24 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-26 7:58 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2018-05-24 23:13 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-26 9:01 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2018-05-26 15:26 ` Drew Adams
2018-05-27 8:22 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2018-05-27 8:41 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2018-05-27 13:31 ` Drew Adams
2018-05-27 14:12 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-27 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-27 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-27 16:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-05-27 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-27 17:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-05-27 17:42 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2018-05-28 7:25 ` Nicolas Petton
2018-05-28 7:33 ` Nicolas Petton
2018-05-28 8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-28 9:32 ` Nicolas Petton
2018-05-12 13:56 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-15 14:37 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2019-08-25 12:56 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-04-30 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-29 22:59 ` Drew Adams
2018-04-29 23:16 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-04-29 23:28 ` Drew Adams
2018-04-30 0:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-04-30 2:47 ` Drew Adams
2018-04-30 7:48 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2018-05-21 17:04 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2022-04-29 13:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-29 14:39 ` Drew Adams
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2018-04-29 17:02 ` Drew Adams
2018-04-29 17:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-29 18:38 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-04-29 19:43 ` Drew Adams
2018-04-29 20:00 ` Michael Heerdegen
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[not found] ` <<<83wowqrmp8.fsf@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <<9cd18e10-8f14-4a49-a3a4-ed9d50afe860@default>
[not found] ` <<83sh7erl01.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-04-29 17:26 ` Drew Adams
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