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: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 21:53:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20151216202605.GA3752@acm.fritz.box> <87io3m60bq.fsf@web.de> <877fk1nnk0.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451184844 14097 80.91.229.3 (27 Dec 2015 02:54:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 02:54:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 27 03:53:55 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 1aD1T1-00077T-7K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 03:53:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40577 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aD1T0-0005rt-RX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 21:53:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35975) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aD1Sh-0005bs-4n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 21:53:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aD1Sg-0003cT-Cs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 21:53:35 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34694) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aD1Sd-0003Zo-Ug; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 21:53:31 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aD1Sd-00049m-22; Sat, 26 Dec 2015 21:53:31 -0500 In-reply-to: <877fk1nnk0.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Sat, 26 Dec 2015 18:10:23 +0100) 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:196955 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. ]]] > Just changing what _ does in pcase's ` to save a comma would IMHO be > what we call in German "verschlimmbessern" (my dictionary says you can > translate that into "disimprove"). I don't think so. A special exception for a particular common case is found in many programming languages, and it is not hard for programmers to understand. -- 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.