From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 20:33:53 +0200 Message-ID: <83h8h2hsoe.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83tvlcsnee.fsf@gnu.org> <86mur137n8.fsf@gmail.com> <20181029130132.GB4195@ACM> <20181029134722.GC4195@ACM> <87lg6gifnb.fsf@web.de> <87muqwxs7m.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <83h8h3jlyd.fsf@gnu.org> <8b897e43-679b-d38c-e185-0efe19c09342@yandex.ru> <83y3aei08p.fsf@gnu.org> <83o9bahz6i.fsf@gnu.org> <83in1ihtox.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1541010775 13170 195.159.176.226 (31 Oct 2018 18:32:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:32:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 31 19:32:51 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gHvIN-0003Eh-8O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 19:32:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32956 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHvKT-0007ET-NK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:34:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57793) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHvJg-0007EC-Mg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:34:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHvJd-0007ua-Ih for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:34:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40716) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHvJd-0007uQ-Ew; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:34:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3325 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gHvJc-0007ge-Dd; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:34:05 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel on Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:28:45 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:230894 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Clément Pit-Claudel > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:28:45 -0400 > > > But the pattern is not the one that destructures. So I think > > "pattern-based destructuring" or "destructuring using patterns" would > > be better. Or something like that. I'm still looking for an > > appropriate term. > > I think I don't understand what kind of term you're looking for, then :/ > A "destructuring pattern" is a thing; "destructuring using patterns" is an action. A thing can be called "destructuring" if it destructures something. It's like a "flying carpet": the carpet that flies. But in our case the patterns don't destructure anything, they are a means for destructuring.