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: Sun, 26 Nov 2023 22:12:11 -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> 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="39438"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 27 04:12:37 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 1r7S30-0009wC-VA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2023 04:12:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r7S2j-0004l9-Bh; Sun, 26 Nov 2023 22:12:17 -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 1r7S2f-0004k9-Dh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2023 22:12:13 -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 1r7S2f-0002nW-3d; Sun, 26 Nov 2023 22:12:13 -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=2MFaYR59lJvVq40PlrPBjtENWyBnTTYXJliAkKhtuOI=; b=NvE1b5+R1wh9 0Y0GKdDyK8reGVtrViH94YFokfUb9vl6zHEp+wzCZXzY2F2HOXv2d7p/FXNL2fP63qZOMtPVToLYW 5yYGfMld5lZr+4iiaCBWFI0uckwzkaDgo/XQjJGq3jCDVv0x1hazkr1INdY9bwhrSQRCVUAZ9MLsD AXlSZyZeKaXK4V783qA2fsVaYJmKoqc2jF3f9JSTcAudDhc8bVej6OQkCjEwIgpCpw9mg+hiVLmzU jI6l/RWQwSNKe7elahPj2sB1FtDkpQfBjdbnbpEzLVHPu0ynwO7hXuNWcxRyAzhpFtq+3gxiTQke0 sBdcJ92W5OTCr9nwxgOuQQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r7S2d-0004VY-Bm; Sun, 26 Nov 2023 22:12:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 24 Nov 2023 23:15:14 -0500) 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:313257 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. ]]] > Interesting. `pcase` is a macro, so it does not see the above > characters, it only sees the resulting Sexp returned by the Lisp reader, > and as you may remember, the reader returns *exactly* the same Sexp > for the above two lines of text. You're right, but I didn't see that, because I was thinking of it as part of a pcase construct and assumed it would produce some unknown code to do the matching. I didn't see that pcase and backwuote itself would not notice the difference. For me, pcase shines a cone of mystery. -- 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)