Re: pcase-dolist

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>> So you'd want the above to signal an error in the case of:
>>>>
>>>>    (pcase-let ((`(,w ,x) '(1 2 3)))
>>>>      (message "%s %s" w x))
>>>>
>>>> ?
>>>
>>> Yes, if you want to pick the first two elements of a list with 2 or
>>> more elements, you should use `(,w ,x . ,_).  I see that the above is
>>> slightly more convenient and concise but I'd value consistency more.
>>
>> This would be a regression IMHO, what if you want to do e.g:
>>
>> (pcase-let ((`(,a ,b) (file-attributes "foo")))
>>   (list a b))
>>
>> It would be inconvenient to have to bind the 10 unused remaining
>> elements.
>
> As I've said, you can use cdr-matching with a don't-care-pattern, e.g.,
>
>   (pcase-let ((`(,a ,b . ,_) (file-attributes "~/.emacs")))
>     (list a b))
>
> which clearly states that you know that the list returned by
> `file-attributes' has more than two elements but you are only interested
> in the first two.

Ah! Ok so the dont-care-pattern handle all the remaining elements.
So yes like this the intention is clearer.

Thanks.

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