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, 29 Nov 2023 22:37:47 -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> <87zfza2aq2.fsf@web.de> <7nmsv9zq6u.fsf@ecube.ecubist.org> <7nv89x5tsi.fsf@ecube.ecubist.org> <87o7focuf5.fsf@web.de> <875y1r10jr.fsf@web.de> <87y1eiz8pd.fsf@yggdrasil.mail-host-address-is-not-set> 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="14656"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nikita Domnitskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 30 04:38:45 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 1r8Xsy-0003aN-23 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2023 04:38:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r8Xs6-000764-Tj; Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:37:50 -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 1r8Xs5-00073P-H2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:37:49 -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 1r8Xs4-0004Zw-MJ; Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:37:48 -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=aeCVGTv4O5RoFaef1QACXk3Q0SXeDrpQS/qqkCwmjqM=; b=DWovaDqXoRpd UiJHCtqrxwoC5PcHSrr/7ROrNNm6TKwdI5GMuXNCpmxNz2IBcF6xqHrkS+C/4f5RKaCYhEQNLEgc6 QjxVk7SCcpInWpMFTQ3S0nWUryE3wSOw5gsDJjpWS+/LBqFy7C/VNiZ4jgquJdeZJW92liZ1K2spz 1SEmhYVVsRXYnvT+GRXMmJSOVo37uk9Xxk2wNtEENPMtXR8mw7CbUDW+Lt1H79uLy4BKB7u0ebmVD REAMy6EhZdtKXnG7EWeDPvm7WE8ppxumjXaI4uI0CAVYR8NlkBL9a3BLAo0QjCxPKczDo8l2RliAe FGDHHqwm/Iyqp78ypID49w==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r8Xs3-0008JB-TX; Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:37:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87y1eiz8pd.fsf@yggdrasil.mail-host-address-is-not-set> (message from Nikita Domnitskii on Tue, 28 Nov 2023 12:35:26 +0600) 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:313374 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. ]]] > To be honest all variants look less expressive than original > pcase. That is a strange thing to say -- "less expressive". Can you explain what "expressive" means to you? I am not sure whether that concept is one I think is desirable or perhaps the opposite of desirable. I suspect you mean they are less terse -- which is the flip side of the problem I'm planning to correct. -- 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)