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, 13 Dec 2023 22:23:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: 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="31916"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Adam Porter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 14 04:24:14 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 1rDcKb-00087Z-T9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2023 04:24:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rDcJr-000765-8x; Wed, 13 Dec 2023 22:23:27 -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 1rDcJo-00075u-Lj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2023 22:23:24 -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 1rDcJo-0004cC-7e; Wed, 13 Dec 2023 22:23:24 -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=y/J57awmLUziXIiVP5jK/YKRsGJdi+RPtwC40OUrZj0=; b=UVkYuxFCWuZe rfHCfnkvI7SzBU00qrudsdxWEsgOlTWIeR6FLbAVtXKXLiqyHS6EDhPe2CaDQg7vkPae8tzmtnvjQ SOcQPQ0F6ktG1wCdT4kzQ5frxb/Ub9eNMWGOMNSUydUenlFW4xYcrxzrYRqYSbBfnunYnuw3kjXhB nMn5k++nuCwjL/04GumUrZVdIZI2FWnmYkvnjEvoF79YfNcQiPPmDff8iAyV6kXw1d5eVwK/tHHvw j4Yeh05YSjpul7ms/sDs67f3dCHt634WJnG2CVVV+2jCzo/cialGrUvJFFAaDbbsBoskus+VnoWdy FgbrM7XG0CHzOdyXHbWWog==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rDcJn-0007KB-Dt; Wed, 13 Dec 2023 22:23:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Adam Porter on Tue, 12 Dec 2023 19:32:09 -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:313752 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. ]]] > One also wonders what it would look like if such a cond* form had > multiple, overlapping fall-through bindings of the same variables--that > would seem to be necessary in some cases, and would likely be confusing. Why would someone write duplicate drop-through clauses in a single cond* form? It looks like you think there is some reason, but I can't guess 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)