From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:51:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20151216202605.GA3752@acm.fritz.box> <83fuygcs5g.fsf@gnu.org> <56886E32.70305@yandex.ru> <83si2f9ve4.fsf@gnu.org> <56889EC3.3040108@yandex.ru> <877fjrkpdf.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <56892334.4000106@yandex.ru> <8760zakb7q.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <56892BDA.6060103@dancol.org> <871t9yk98g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <568936F0.3060505@yandex.ru> <87wprqitj5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <56893C8C.3060200@yandex.ru> <87oad2irtd.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <5689456A.1010601@yandex.ru> <87egdy8tyz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <56895FDE.4060406@yandex.ru> <8760za8r4a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9iunkcg.fsf@web.de> <87h8hc4xw2.fsf_-_@web.de> <83tvlcsnee.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540356596 18845 195.159.176.226 (24 Oct 2018 04:49:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:49:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 24 06:49:52 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gFB78-0004hq-KN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 06:49:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45710 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFB9A-0006s0-2s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:51:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60294) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFB93-0006rj-Qs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:51:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFB91-0006Gv-N7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:51:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39348) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFB8q-00063S-LJ; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:51:37 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gFB8p-0006rJ-Gq; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:51:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:14:02 -0400) 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: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:230618 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. ]]] > In what sense is the above cl-case more clear than the pcase equivalent? > I'm not saying the pcase version is better in those cases, but I think > the respective advantages and disadvantages pretty much balance out. I also wonder. Is it simply that people find pcase unfamiliar? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)