Re: Question on pcase

["Przemysław Wojnowski" <esperanto@cumego.com>]

W dniu 23.10.2015 o 22:39, Michael Heerdegen pisze:
> Przemysław Wojnowski <esperanto@cumego.com> writes:
>> I don't understand one thing. If "pcase" in an implementation of
>> Pattern Matching, then why it is called "pcase" not "pmatch"?
>
> `pcase' itself is just one macro that pcase.el defines that makes use of
> pattern matching.  I guess the name means Pattern (matching) Case,
> because it's syntax and semantic is similar to `cl-case', just with
> pattern matching.

IMHO it makes sense to rename it to match its concept and hence making it
easier to learn (discover) for people that know the concept from other
languages:
- Clojure: core.match (https://github.com/clojure/core.match)
- Scala: match keyword 
(http://docs.scala-lang.org/tutorials/tour/pattern-matching.html)
- Racket: match form (http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/match.html)
- F#: match expression (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd547125.aspx)