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, 03 Dec 2023 22:11:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: <763f067b-4ca9-1eba-9f3c-424c38589e9c@gutov.dev> <83fs0navpj.fsf@gnu.org> <87il5jgf1z.fsf@web.de> <83a5qubfud.fsf@gnu.org> <87plzp53h4.fsf@web.de> <87fs0kn3ed.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="20525"; 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 Mon Dec 04 04:12:11 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 1r9zNS-000595-Pn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2023 04:12:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r9zN2-00064A-MR; Sun, 03 Dec 2023 22:11:44 -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 1r9zN1-00063f-Aw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Dec 2023 22:11:43 -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 1r9zN1-0007KP-2l; Sun, 03 Dec 2023 22:11:43 -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=R02g3+b9I1IO9zVy7WXFkwc0UrDyCopVz1bCWb41FI8=; b=E4FQpvBbEt78 iLfo03ZW5aR8G5nkJ1PvabjoAqVz42c70RuaLdfaZ2EL7E2DHNDJRI0S57D/J3aZMjf9vRk+WMcFz 1AX6HfreZT74AqenQ7uWe3lJCBcDKK5Ai8FZlwd32iP1irmhX45RFeVNDdK/YfbSS7qP9gWqWuqqS Y4qw7RrtalW4P1EiVKg43EpqC9H6rIEG1dYEhOCW/A1zq8qHJBZCd+jpMwv19kN1kPRMV5RCWmOxb 9emB7lnYIIW60uDaxupvZgEQ72plGiMhAu0FbceowRlTLfGEpoYEDbhbBep2TPj6TvyPYevHZxNkH J+e6cmRw7H/53sUELmUWPg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r9zN0-0004E1-6t; Sun, 03 Dec 2023 22:11:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87fs0kn3ed.fsf@web.de> (emacs-devel@gnu.org) 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:313503 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. ]]] > Is this really your main problem? The "meaning" of any values is > context dependent, also of syntax when any macros are used. In principle, a macro can make any sort of transformations on the data inside the macro form. In practice, nearly all macros fall into a limited range of syntax patters. Macros that do drastic things with syntax, such as `pcase', are few. Most macros' syntax is obvious when you see it. -- 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)