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: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:58:26 -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> <87v89ht2s4.fsf@linux-m68k.org> 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="7730"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 05 03:59:06 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 1rALeL-0001nx-Op for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Dec 2023 03:59:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rALdk-0002Sr-1I; Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:58:28 -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 1rALdj-0002RR-5k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:58:27 -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 1rALdi-00035x-Nl; Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:58:26 -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=MQ8OIDBEnG1Xq+PHNqwme2h5ijY1C4sTS5Mne6vi+uY=; b=QeNmBmIWZ/Uw Hm1fLRGHJBWuPt+3jQrxlMRxmR/pf1jjS1gk7CBDSISL8xy/nfUKAvIh+I1gTViSKye6S5xBf8L/j bkPI01vjEo0kRZ1LwGFJIyVJauEOo8DPWq5XMnRj/Dwwh30rAdfUcGt5cRJRevjjruQsK1Y3h9vR4 z2XS2MTgruSIiJLFB1yRS6fB5KNWaTmWNb7rErQXxlAPO5kHPrJ0oZM3smvWN5Mkjf344PPVDf2IL BN44oNiALTOqtWzwLSMblM9W6hZAcC7D2R4j/Scne0yuztYYz4AKXSEfMlLO+Z4OHo7OuajqOMviJ qxYWZU0ZfsZeBnDF8zlTuw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rALdi-00088E-G3; Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:58:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87v89ht2s4.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (message from Andreas Schwab on Sat, 02 Dec 2023 09:41:15 +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:313530 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. ]]] > > confusing. I know what dotted pairs mean, but I was not sure what > > they meant in pcase patterns. > They don't mean anything. It's pure lisp syntax. I explained why I found it hard to understand that example. Your response to my explanation is to argue with it. To argue with someone's explanation of why something was confusing does not change teh fact that it was confusing. You can either pay attention to the cause, and perhaps reach a useful conclusion, or ignore the cause. But ignoring it will not make the confusion not happen. -- 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)