From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things. Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 20:31:44 +0000 Message-ID: <87d1u2npsf.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <20151216202605.GA3752@acm.fritz.box> <877fkatpct.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450557134 11804 80.91.229.3 (19 Dec 2015 20:32:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 20:32:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , Emacs developers , Kaushal Modi To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 19 21:32:04 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aAOAe-0005uE-6g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 21:32:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38545 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAOAc-0000lx-VX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 15:32:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36620) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAOAQ-0000lO-RO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 15:31:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAOAN-0002VD-Jx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 15:31:50 -0500 Original-Received: from cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.22]:42069) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAOAN-0002V6-DP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 15:31:47 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129] helo=smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk) by cheviot22.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1aAOAL-0005Kj-Ej; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 20:31:45 +0000 Original-Received: from cpc6-benw10-2-0-cust45.gate.cable.virginm.net ([92.238.179.46] helo=localhost) by smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1aAOAL-00042e-73; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 20:31:45 +0000 In-Reply-To: <877fkatpct.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Sat, 19 Dec 2015 16:44:34 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:196522 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > Just had a very quick look. > > > To sum up, I don't think that basing the tutorial on the difference of > qpatterns and upatterns is a good idea. Destructuring is only one > specific aspect of pcase. And there are even different means of > destructuring now, namely seq and map. These forms could do with documenting. I've tried to get the seq and map pcase-macro's working and have failed. Phil