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: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:24:29 -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="5794"; 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 Sat Dec 16 05:25:04 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 1rEMEZ-0001IZ-RR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 16 Dec 2023 05:25:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rEME5-00027q-EV; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:24:33 -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 1rEME3-00023D-M9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:24:31 -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 1rEME3-0001Ta-A4; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:24:31 -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=KhUnbpGu3oPU2BNCgtTDpjKK7U0is1R0YiIEnxRmC/Q=; b=JGC2cTKKCdYs D4p+y2Nq7nui+Ort1sW8BEK2Ps2NqtkNgyW5QIN9FJ8VrcGgHb8q3C0Wy83a+vEaBegjmet8qYbbh Su92bnV+mk62IhCaxef9/DgjsydVLLRu9zLqRtuPobYCBrRfKyrzqjZV16rVJiM6iHoj3CJ5W5JBE ZprcraLJ3kQq+92g1ZKC75f8NNARcLOIAoZNrXseU7kIF0xsm7fPnPV6yzCkdKm0RnIa3FVJTj6mg 4P9Jww+7jZ32DddwaZz+XhHCHxYYYsmSnIivhuXaFh+OK9Tr/ozTRwYKfNnLKM2xy5/LFYDOh2UP9 F1VACZLd9VYsCjbQWO9dag==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rEME1-0003Mt-Pw; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:24:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:52:43 +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:313866 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. ]]] > In terms of a proposal: If you're going to allow > clauses that just "fall through" (e.g. only match & > bind), then (1) tell users how to easily recognize > them The file says this. In this version, each clause exits if it contains more than one element (after the possible keyword), and falls through otherwise. I think that is clear and simple. I don't know if I have posted that part. and (2) maybe even add something syntactic that > distinguishes them more easily. There are many ways to do that. Which would you propose? -- 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)