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 22:03:34 +0100 Message-ID: <87si2ykv6h.fsf@web.de> References: <20151216202605.GA3752@acm.fritz.box> <83d1u4xhja.fsf@gnu.org> <8737uytov3.fsf@web.de> <83bn9mv01p.fsf@gnu.org> <83a8p6uzil.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450559040 6330 80.91.229.3 (19 Dec 2015 21:04:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 21:04:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, acm@muc.de, kaushal.modi@gmail.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 19 22:03:50 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 1aAOfO-0005KN-Ik for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 22:03:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38627 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAOfN-00086a-S9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 16:03:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44682) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAOfL-00086O-05 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 16:03:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAOfG-00017Z-2U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 16:03:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.14]:50069) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAOfF-00017T-Ot; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 16:03:41 -0500 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([90.186.0.6]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb004) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Ld2nY-1aagzS2weO-00iEAC; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 22:03:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: <83a8p6uzil.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 19 Dec 2015 19:19:46 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:zB1W36H6FUi/w2ty04nfP/P6tUS6fFXYX09xfSsRSke7ZouvWX1 /4eMV8BO3iGFnnfpBS2Tb2976VRk4h1haLJT+ld0F6y33ejvMKvO7oXDna1lqXYc/j75ymC FGDnOCR2fpFpx1ZhvS9bahY5zEGexCiTNTUMGxPgokjQNVjTKoAt4nbF7LFRy8JlJ9wUR4Q pbshLijMYFqHcPqj8Ws7A== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:weUWTmWZnXU=:ChCv76TTidwVwJzYlb/rh0 0YojmevX02DBE5J6/fri0sFk4XGFT/ZLv7gu3CqaAIUe8d+U7NkTjIJN8a+bNrzrmHkRlsIYn +3xUoHaYtcKFNdXLqr7qBckKycA0donHDKLfYVJOrtZ8pIXosYqrI5zWm9JZIsQq80YcPsGz5 e1Xyfx4c2Zxeokyr3Q/Nul4fKERShxj2PwlpSfGMf8VJygxbwtTe0oRzrxYkxFJdUBg4GPDSN Em6osGKLE64gJ68+KMP0wMiXb/7ZG1vxBKYjzOTifTt0EP6jFCx8lEK8Ev8YRBYMnhzO3pa8q VvTQo55C/N+Jti81+pJ9jVi5UWkUxO/fpqJ2DizH7cPFvl36UDTL8MFWChSZkBfoPz1RWtZpM SVZz9eWX975RpczqOIynFkk/2HFI5xyfiAWrbHSBjzkhoq1BTd9uVZ8C2VHn7s9/AUDf0149L 9kBfrftVx8Qp2o6IqtAGJC16i5L6JtCX9QPA018xi3/9wyYn7OEmiQ1vN99DFUt+uPV9bQv1l fBN5oBW5d/VQgqPLf52IFK9o/d2GsIlIquBb2blC07fbtZTCzjpA/FZDpNqjnHJ6x457AaLsS 4loODNJOp35jKPidQvvMNGcShfAfWWQJIHZ0CWhh9wslJA10mINSv8/zHwe6hvZm+MClXQNpy IAQyKCAaC7SILyIN0mxTo8tA23ug810/+2kJTTn5FR28Y8njVYc9HBzOILTSXDEKbJyAO2SMK kzuSczmQc58JABCfZeu+xfwJJyBP0Sh4GR0IlQyjXHe6+DOflW4HwyCg/rKui+kHxIPDmow8 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.14 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:196528 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > (Time passes...) Ah, I see: I was confused by John's different style: > "now bound to foo" vs "bind it to foo". These actually intend to say > the same thing: "match anything and bind it to foo", but the former > wording made it sound like it was already bound to foo before, i.e. as > if the first pattern _uses_ the existing binding of foo, instead of > binding foo. Yes, exactly. > Silly me, trying to assign too much importance to the wording. Ok, but the words are there to explain the thing, so... Regards, Michael.