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, 06 Dec 2023 21:48:41 -0500 Message-ID: References: <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> <83fs0navpj.fsf@gnu.org> <838r6ebfhw.fsf@gnu.org> <83zfyu9wdg.fsf@gnu.org> <87edg69tup.fsf@linux-m68k.org> <83zfyq5gds.fsf@gnu.org> <83sf4i5ckp.fsf@gnu.org> <871qc1dfnw.fsf@igel.home> 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="16975"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, owinebar@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 07 03:49:34 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 1rB4SE-0004Ab-FX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2023 03:49:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rB4RS-0001CZ-2H; Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:48:46 -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 1rB4RP-0001CO-Rp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:48:45 -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 1rB4RP-0006xN-45; Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:48:43 -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=XgSGkb+B10OTTjPYNaxHAUSPRbvxfHlDhNkdlB3fsBQ=; b=S+UBv7reb9ah 3CWxe3aCUxemgVTWDfWfulmXm75Ym5ZpVYWAyrbNLClrrE1frlHuzi5oAFx1VkSnNeO93U6HnlVZA KuEdAdanQWNGF3MivxB1FAFclsw9j+UeK4O2S9HXexmK0638KWeh7PyVGXs86FFmhVybw6Kb3Jd4p z6E+al3RtvITVtjgQvuvVjrbLXMfiA7OjzWc6KW2JQ0mIdXOQER9WRQvvtcuc25kXbzcmHYLeSOJO VkR1FJFZcTrbYwXTffvMG1+TggKJIiudy7wXqPShT9VzKBrB4ajJ23w0E1bXN4eVNB4IEpND3Mjcs 9eoKtIEOj2qF6hCcO2Ubpw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rB4RN-0005jE-1Y; Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:48:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <871qc1dfnw.fsf@igel.home> (message from Andreas Schwab on Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:46:27 +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:313576 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. ]]] > >> Elisp will happily evaluate the expression > >> (if . ( t . (nil . (t . nil)))) > >> > >> Would you, or anyone, say that reflects some flaw in the design of the "if" form? > > > > No, but if someone writes such 'if' forms, I will ask them to rewrite > > them. > There are 1802 occurrences of the sequence " . (" in the Emacs lisp > files. I will take your word for it -- but di you realize that you changed the subject? Occurrences of the sequence " . (" in the Emacs sources are mostly not part of the issue at hand. -- 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)