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"T.V Raman" <raman@google.com> writes:

> I recently tried to understand some of the completion code; --
> specifically, completion-at-point, and immediately hit the pcase wall
> and gave up --- my lack of understanding of pcase made that code in
> Emacs Core read like line-noise.

But that pcase form is only performing trivial destructuring.  Only
that, nothing more.  If you can read backquote expressions, you can read
that with exactly the same ease.

Michael.