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: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:23:58 -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="3678"; 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 Sat Dec 16 05:24:42 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 1rEMED-0000nU-Ey for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 16 Dec 2023 05:24:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rEMDZ-0001ZD-1S; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:24:01 -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 1rEMDX-0001W1-CN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:23:59 -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 1rEMDW-0001IC-QG; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:23:58 -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=swuc4bLyFORkZC8uzKav0JEWeNS0seq6CA9MX0ZN1ZU=; b=V/m7Gw7vR5mt KDHm/pwu43d8xLTlamJkkWVCibJzZVOZFRON7XD/dbKHGQ8SFuvV4Fnr6k3iSWKC29S9Gg+a7jcQG WAqYZO16VUbRilVtRLRI/Ne0UjB7wCk7DsyNSaObUESycq8zQfmKQFs6a+INgGMHsz7+L5DCQBpPz fON9cxCrNEQNx3O01wchdhDNJ+3XuiLb8C+lDJCvApeyLWs6SM09qISfXhu9Hau5NhmbRsk2ek+Nt elRGi+QqPonWSo12cW/5ZMtOumDOkfsHWL16UOZUQXzCslhZVZ0S2UakwaQTOJdG27QdyTp/Lpzqj Apt7YLI6wFl1vcd8n4Hh5A==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rEMDW-00036a-6N; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:23:58 -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:313864 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. ]]] > As well, what if the user needed to pass an already-bound argument in > addition to the one being bound there? With pcase, the binding would be > explicit, and the accompanying `guard' expression would have a clear > place in lexical scope, so there would be no doubt about where the > arguments were bound. I am having trouble grasping the abstract description. Would you like to show an example of the putative problem that you are concerned about? I might understand it then. -- 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)