From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philip Kaludercic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Instead of pcase Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 18:16:09 +0000 Message-ID: <878r6xef86.fsf@posteo.net> References: <87fs169mjj.fsf@posteo.net> <877cmhlhjp.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34555"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 16 19:17:18 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1r3gvV-0008j7-QE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2023 19:17:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r3guX-0004d1-Va; Thu, 16 Nov 2023 13:16:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r3guW-0004cg-Ga for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2023 13:16:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.66]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r3guU-0007QX-4D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2023 13:16:16 -0500 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [185.67.36.169]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 97682240101 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2023 19:16:10 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1700158570; bh=lJ+8NhDmbU7QhiFZnLK7tl0o4poA+iqD4V6Ac7KgVIw=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Autocrypt:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version:From; b=nKmoRfcHazdVcKtJLVsPEOeV+xJEVx2CSxbsgJPzJY7RzBurbKnMB54NLT3bKNu3d fmHwSYZhisDZPbj66ZvjUa1ggqykBUJmGma4b+83GOXFYeFIArJPYfSaeIPf07eSfa vOUMqKt/+3usmrhwcCIXugJ5uVkwwoCTrzxWVTopYMfL1f8KpkICfgS773n1pv4YcY fkm8b+4a6ShpXAECjQAJ6j4TEgzQAihEyp0crtwyOdgL+Bm1oH8QYH6o+3fc4so273 ahN3OJ27eNElJhVfdKXHqCYQ0cchOVUtmkOZm+Nn2TS6bVsR2tOGI++YxyU3eLl/RJ 9eTSxmw6rAp6w== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 4SWSs60qBHz6twb; Thu, 16 Nov 2023 19:16:09 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <877cmhlhjp.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Thu, 16 Nov 2023 18:44:10 +0100") Autocrypt: addr=philipk@posteo.net; keydata= mDMEZBBQQhYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAHJuofBrfqFh12uQu0Yi7mrl525F28eTmwUDflFNmdui0QlBo aWxpcCBLYWx1ZGVyY2ljIChnZW5lcmF0ZWQgYnkgYXV0b2NyeXB0LmVsKSA8cGhpbGlwa0Bwb3N0 ZW8ubmV0PoiWBBMWCAA+FiEEDg7HY17ghYlni8XN8xYDWXahwukFAmQQUEICGwMFCQHhM4AFCwkI BwIGFQoJCAsCBBYCAwECHgECF4AACgkQ8xYDWXahwulikAEA77hloUiSrXgFkUVJhlKBpLCHUjA0 mWZ9j9w5d08+jVwBAK6c4iGP7j+/PhbkxaEKa4V3MzIl7zJkcNNjHCXmvFcEuDgEZBBQQhIKKwYB BAGXVQEFAQEHQI5NLiLRjZy3OfSt1dhCmFyn+fN/QKELUYQetiaoe+MMAwEIB4h+BBgWCAAmFiEE Dg7HY17ghYlni8XN8xYDWXahwukFAmQQUEICGwwFCQHhM4AACgkQ8xYDWXahwukm+wEA8cml4JpK NeAu65rg+auKrPOP6TP/4YWRCTIvuYDm0joBALw98AMz7/qMHvSCeU/hw9PL6u6R2EScxtpKnWof z4oM Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.67.36.66; envelope-from=philipk@posteo.net; helo=mout02.posteo.de X-Spam_score_int: -43 X-Spam_score: -4.4 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H5=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:312820 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > "T.V Raman" 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. Right, and if one wouldn't use it to destruct values, you'd end up with a lot more boiler-plate code that would be harder to maintain and more to read. If one has to talk about difficult to understand/remember domain specific languages, then `font-lock-defaults' would be a much more pressing candidate. > Michael.