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: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 03:08:48 +0100 Message-ID: <87mvsmnljj.fsf@web.de> References: <20151216202605.GA3752@acm.fritz.box> <87io3m60bq.fsf@web.de> <877fk1nnk0.fsf@web.de> <8760zlue3j.fsf@gmail.com> <87vb7kajgv.fsf@web.de> <83y4c9ag06.fsf@gnu.org> <87bn95m9eg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <5686CDFB.2010105@dancol.org> <83fuygcs5g.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3i0l6oq.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87si2fwm38.fsf@web.de> <8737ufkpal.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451873426 30851 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2016 02:10:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 02:10:26 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 04 03:10:17 2016 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 1aFub7-0002hU-Oc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 03:10:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43581 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFub7-0004nr-2X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 21:10:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39153) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFub4-0004nh-03 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 21:10:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFub0-0003SO-OF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 21:10:09 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55084) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFub0-0003SI-HD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 21:10:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aFuaw-0002WG-Oo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 03:10:02 +0100 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-0-84.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.0.84]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 03:10:02 +0100 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-0-84.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 03:10:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-0-84.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eG0aZiPBiVykhFrJlBKc5A2l2gw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:197559 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > > I don't see how a pcase used like a cl-case - as in the quoted example - > > is any harder to read or understand. > > Quasiquotes are quasiquotes. They are harder to read for the Lisp > reader, and they are harder to read for the human reader. I already said it multiple times, and I will say it again, every time this complaint is formulated: This is outdated syntax, you don't have to use backquote to quote symbols, only when you really want to do list destructuring. Michael.