From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A protest against pcase, pcase-let, pcase-let*
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 00:46:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <551BA249.9020205@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <551AF4AA.3040300@yandex.ru>
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On 03/31/2015 12:25 PM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 03/31/2015 09:00 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>
>> OK, maybe pcase itself has a page in the elisp manual, but this page is
>> very difficult to understand, certainly for me. I have attempted quite
>> a lot of times to make sense of it, and failed.
>
> I think it's pretty nice. It provides pattern matching, as well as
> destructuring (something that previously required the use of cl-lib), in
> a concise and performant way.
>
> The docs can look a bit dense at first, but after reading them carefully
> and experimenting a bit, I'm sure most people can get a hang of it.
pcase is really an excellent tool. The documentation is better for
reference than for learning how to use it, though. Good thing Emacs is
full of pcase examples now.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-01 7:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-31 18:00 A protest against pcase, pcase-let, pcase-let* Alan Mackenzie
2015-03-31 18:29 ` John Wiegley
2015-04-18 1:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-03-31 19:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-01 7:46 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2015-04-01 9:59 ` Phillip Lord
2015-04-01 12:04 ` Nic Ferrier
2015-04-01 12:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-01 13:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-02 7:19 ` Richard Stallman
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