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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Update of pcase docs for the elisp manual
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 15:22:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874me1rb5p.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83io2j3v4v.fsf@gnu.org

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> > and 'VAL is also spelled (quote VAL).
>
> This probably means that 'quote' shouldn't be documented as a separate
> pattern, as that is a technicality which is much more likely to
> confuse than to help understanding.  Unless, that is, there are
> important scenarios where using (quote FOO) in a pattern is required
> where it isn't a trivial replacement for 'FOO.  Do you know about such
> scenarios?

It should not do harm if you avoid to spell out 'FOO as (quote FOO) in
any docs, I think.


Michael.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-25 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <m2fuxq6pb0.fsf@newartisans.com>
     [not found] ` <87d1stznc6.fsf@web.de>
     [not found]   ` <m2si1p8r31.fsf@newartisans.com>
     [not found]     ` <m2powt5w50.fsf@newartisans.com>
2016-01-23 11:17       ` Update of pcase docs for the elisp manual Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-24  4:40         ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-24 14:33           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-24 23:17             ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-25 16:14               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-26  1:40                 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-26 15:38                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-26 16:23                     ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-25 14:22             ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2016-01-25 14:15         ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-25 16:33           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-28 18:37             ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-29  3:06               ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-29  9:45               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-29 14:51                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-26 16:59         ` John Wiegley
2016-01-26 18:10           ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-26 18:41           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-26 19:35             ` John Wiegley
2016-01-26 20:28               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-29  1:28                 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-29  8:30                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-29 13:39                     ` Andy Moreton
2016-01-29 14:21                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-29 15:14                         ` Andy Moreton
2016-01-29 15:37                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-26 19:58             ` Andy Moreton
2016-01-26 20:19               ` Eli Zaretskii

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