From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things. Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 16:18:33 +0100 Message-ID: <87k2oatqk6.fsf@web.de> References: <20151216202605.GA3752@acm.fritz.box> <83d1u4xhja.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450538353 2177 80.91.229.3 (19 Dec 2015 15:19:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 15:19:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kaushal.modi@gmail.com, John Wiegley , emacs-devel@gnu.org, acm@muc.de To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 19 16:19:03 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 1aAJHj-000440-DQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 16:19:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37655 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAJHi-0007uZ-It for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 10:19:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56003) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAJHS-0007uO-VR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 10:18:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAJHP-0007gr-Oc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 10:18:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.12]:53054) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAJHP-0007gj-Ff; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 10:18:43 -0500 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([90.186.0.107]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb103) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MTPel-1Ziypz38gp-00SPBj; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 16:18:41 +0100 In-Reply-To: <83d1u4xhja.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:55:21 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:hYqXAKfPGidtVs0p1GD5LO3V92WJxd0DUmgdkKStpzrnQLfMV9d MkSWhG3+1D1JiO4kFYL3bTXvuiipudLi+vP2vYHlsTEnVLiDSJVuZz9z1GGz2mJQXoReI4W +DQg5WdG0Lgr95KEnybowuhSZDA08GOexzV9XEGHD1W9jDUD8jexjuJndx9Td3pP+8vgPfS rsYGarKd6kIi+FFQ5JOnA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:1c+ELACHSN8=:WI9toWtYXh6T/i3PR+X+Fv 55EnzsI2UNyX+FzOhT8bHwOIF2H49aI8P42E3o6HSrXzc3f0BObuOgktOmbsPJOa60yYHnMko HbxvduaNxcgwwUp+dyh7PuzQJF+uECGMEZH7DI97e3wZBKfA7kZ8w+xT/i4iSnzCk3EYoFiux WpGn4wLVMwbWV8D/vLvECjUKl3NKoiDxi/Bwt06iCz4b5wxSTW8a7GAGri7D3luOFau3EsnAM z+avb4jNxT4TzknjthVMmYv+7ulhWjg4s7qmIycK3hcfTHKlN42rEnO8CqLrycmVxn6nGvi/G oiBwY1K28M8Ed4pYq5WA7T/7HQnn9DmSx07/GyPNWAblvd+HkwUA6Ehe+n65eO8oD4ci6ErF2 9k2Vf4wSU5AddqVBSYi+Jx8S45J0pNbToNPH4ov8DjBV3ixv/+i5NKrEQSMVelIaFwaSdaJAR HwkYoU/9xvMWIZTxtZl8R+THVO5pef1QyxtGdktSU3gjxcN9cFKcyrj0fPPZq0UGmIOOj/cXw U8JPkn9RDY+gjnMNPOnZY+JNEgDhMchmaEnGR8ku6deGQsR9rdq45EQzFA39Wjt3aM2WrUBLZ W/t/5kATINqfbNHujNztJaBNgnku9ev/+naUGfA5a33nNfXlbDPQL67E2C+nJQzB/B1fZlq2Q td4cnZoGDuMlQqjtf1axxJPhRzzZFhYvJxSAqsFzTzLvgYj+0hOA4SeAcumyFTyq9YGHKcB4r /LXn5sMglneuSZjO+hbLfUZQmMyPI5RuhtEpeumpt/kCfB4weZU1rpsU0Tar3KbwfmYQbTiY X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.12 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:196504 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > > (pcase value > > (`(1 2 ,(or `3 `4)) > > (message "Matched either the list (1 2 3) or (1 2 4)"))) > > Do 3 and 4 really have to be quoted here? Why? Of course not! The form after the `unquote' is a "normal" pcase pattern. Numbers count as atoms matching themselves. Michael.