From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things. Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 00:49:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20151216202605.GA3752@acm.fritz.box> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451022589 24660 80.91.229.3 (25 Dec 2015 05:49:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 05:49:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, kaushal.modi@gmail.com To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 25 06:49:40 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 1aCLFy-0004KF-DQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 06:49:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34284 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCLFx-0007iM-Nl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 00:49:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43003) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCLFu-0007iA-Eo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 00:49:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCLFt-0003ib-NV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 00:49:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35533) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCLFp-0003ho-I0; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 00:49:29 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aCLFi-0003B8-Dz; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 00:49:23 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Wed, 23 Dec 2015 22:15:01 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:196813 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > But I think it might be useful to define _ > > as a QPattern to be equivalent to ,_. > > It is true that this would make it an exception among QPatterns, > > but one exception might be worth while. > I don't see much value in doing so; is it just to save a comma? Yes. That comma won't add much to the size of the code, and typing it is not much work. But I think that avoiding it would make pcase more attractive and conceptually simpler. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.