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: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 22:17:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87fs169mjj.fsf@posteo.net> 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="34824"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 26 04:17:57 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 1r75ef-0008ou-Bw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2023 04:17:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r75eI-0000w0-7V; Sat, 25 Nov 2023 22:17:34 -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 1r75eG-0000vT-7n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2023 22:17:32 -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 1r75eF-0003yP-Sr; Sat, 25 Nov 2023 22:17:31 -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=2w/t/KQLlCvt33QT2fSSpUU1pEiOP6JtRFB31Utit3w=; b=K5/fLAPpC2im KdXjgwkUo7UAE8rAH6XLl0nBdntATZGv9hZ4VhLIPKcOQLaYJEr1I9BRPpfPiodQlyh6ODXmeruFr XdICgnm0SW1zQZzT13ASVLQlKz/37VYDKLsA/yNpl8eoyqSyLVBnWeKBSY5hxurJ1MOo+Rq+W8oBR kUGLf4lezSAysJ7Jqbh5UNDGDel0JB35SHau6ApLrMggG5e+SizqfGvUqsBJzuvpodmLd7HR6EmE0 EGNXfEbmiSc7ZWxJ68NdW3Emk7hyDE25m7OzKMvZi3XIR7qvB6J6XZJFMiDTktuuTQVNQt+nsTwpG WVw1OPLquqcRYImAfx2EmA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r75eF-0002pT-KA; Sat, 25 Nov 2023 22:17:31 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87fs169mjj.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Thu, 16 Nov 2023 07:37:04 +0000) 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:313231 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 question is, if > one would restrict pcase to just matching expressions using ` and , like > (pcase sexp ;match various top-level constructs I am not sure what ";match various top-level constructs" means. > (`(defun ,name ,args ,body) ...) > (`(defvar ,name, ,value) ...) > (`(require ',symbol) ...) > ...) That part is conceptually simple. > would that be simple enough in your opinion? -- 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)