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: [External] : Re: Instead of pcase Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 22:24:00 -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> <87v895iyzy.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="33645"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 14 04:24:35 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 1rDcKw-0008XR-NP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2023 04:24:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rDcKR-0007FH-IF; Wed, 13 Dec 2023 22:24:03 -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 1rDcKP-0007EY-9m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2023 22:24:01 -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 1rDcKO-0005JK-PP; Wed, 13 Dec 2023 22:24:00 -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=eOi7xZyqa4xTk40yNdO4YwXdmRPb0lX0L/njuUK95O4=; b=GabVs2z8j+ve P37eN53e7GRta1fujmEOB1NFLy33R/AZEP9+SmqIU00t/epxhTT99enjomVE4ho1RnNRHTKCxque/ AmPl61NeW1v64mo3OXp1KAhobYK+XOa4lt3a+/bIYmlYJMBjaz8ck9EDfEoYxr6XTIYSdRUxbmIUp HfvdzbCyc2QYu0QA5vatwrg1QTcc+VAa9BA+zXL1BAWVOUlC24wKCtLD1/r4J+nNDiob9aGXRxSgS e85DvEajDkrAEYSbEcFh/DixD/A77loTqooF+ghzP/0K6cBv2BVTG5P+6WE0zvU8OA2DiAdVq56+S fTaOYx8rGZRsGNCsg1VkeQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rDcKO-0007Ys-Hg; Wed, 13 Dec 2023 22:24:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:18:05 +0000) 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:313753 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. ]]] > It might be clearer if clauses that can end > the `cond*' are easily distinguished from > those that always continue on to the next > clause - their return value doesn't matter to > the control flow (e.g., they just match/bind). That is rather abstract, and I am not sure what idea you are proposing. If you send a specific proposal I can think about it. > Or is the former always the case if a clause > contains two successive sexps? I am not sure what "the former" refers to. Could you please state your point in a way that takes less work to understand? p -- 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)