From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Instead of pcase Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:00:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87fs169mjj.fsf@posteo.net> <093f11a1-57c2-5e56-d39b-26fef1c67cbb@gutov.dev> <25942.25061.217864.329049@retriever.mtv.corp.google.com> <87zfzdcz6z.fsf@posteo.net> <763f067b-4ca9-1eba-9f3c-424c38589e9c@gutov.dev> <87a5r7azhe.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28611"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 23 04:01:14 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1r5zxq-0007Hh-63 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Nov 2023 04:01:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r5zxT-00031w-E9; Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:00:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r5zwo-0002bd-Rt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:00:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r5zwn-0001BP-Qx; Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:00:09 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=rp+rVISyTpmCoIDzTL4ca+vPbu+Ff3WZ/4mnCVRepJc=; b=TSdzTXA/hdL6 kTdFXjvHT+4sVamClSnc0KviVXBfM5+PVUJPxX8IKNgEH6uridF6AcsaioCF2umo5xWWdObwuGVEq DXPdFnoiYPa4KwEY3WoYGvbLSJsfKhSW070n3o7KYmlWx+hgifBgAiQRwaDsuSHqt8Pk//iwgGhfV RfEER0Y3JsCkj2xcb4uGX+sY8zea8RVTKJYYSrifxTJM0uxQiP2ClRUBi6RTbG+vQYcfKz2YGiSI3 Fw65xfXDkH8BGXMoU56uczveYPgLBkniPhunkZImtN2g02e7Kn8w+/8H74hWm+mR/spisV41YVR6S 41zZtgcGLhWNRwetGhTs5w==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r5zwj-0007i6-Pl; Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:00:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87a5r7azhe.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:38:05 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:313138 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. ]]] > > The particular shape is chosen to follow how the data matched against > > was constructed in completion--capf-wrapper: (cons fun res). So it was > > for the ease of comprehension, actually. > Indeed. The backquote syntax allows to resemble the structure of the > matched list. So it actually helps the readers understanding. Maybe it helps someone understand some code in another context, but in did not help me understand that example. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)