Re: cond* vs pcase

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:

>    I use pcase often; but I use it just as a better cond. For example I find this
>    handy:
>
>    (defvar foo nil) <-- foo is some symbol
>
>    (pcase foo
>      ('bar (do-some-bar-stuff))
>      ('baz (do-some-baz-fluff)))
>
> cl-case seems more appropriate here (wish cl-case was just case ...)

Why more appropriate?  I always think of pcase as Elisp's case.  In
addition, pcase avoids the danger of naively writing 

   (cl-case foo
     ('bar (do-some-bar-stuff))
     ('baz (do-some-baz-fluff)))

and then getting surprised when foo evaluates to `quote'.

>    or this:
>
>    (setq foo "some-string")
>
>    (pcase foo
>      ("foo" (do-foo-case))
>      ("bar" (do-bar-case)))
>
> Same here, with (intern foo) ...

Being able to do equal instead of eql is also something that speaks in
favour of pcase...