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 17:50:30 +0200 Message-ID: <83y3aei08p.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> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1541000930 21756 195.159.176.226 (31 Oct 2018 15:48:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:48:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 31 16:48:45 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 1gHsjb-0005Vs-UZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 16:48:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60288 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHsli-0002PD-86 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:50:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59555) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHslU-0002Mc-Vb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:50:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHslT-0003e2-1D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:50:40 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37208) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHslO-0003Y9-Et; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:50:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4609 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gHslO-0003pD-1t; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:50:34 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:52:37 -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:230877 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:52:37 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > >>> Couldn't we also say that a pattern with "holes" is a destructuring pattern, > >>> not matter if it is used in pcase-let, or just pcase? > >> We could, but the reason why I'm trying to define a new term (which > >> I called here "destructuring pattern") is to define what happens with > >> pcase-let, pcase-dolist, pcase-let* where the pattern is assumed > >> to match. > > I only meant to say that introducing a term that somebody fairly familiar > > with the subject might misinterpret without reading its definition in the > > manual, could be suboptimal. > > Agreed. > > > But don't mind me, I don't have any alternative proposals anyway. > > Neither do I, Can someone enlighten me regarding those "holes"? What does that allude to?