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: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 23:13:51 -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> <25981.60640.979482.528976@orion.rgrjr.com> 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="27691"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bob Rogers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 18 05:14:14 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 1rF51B-00071y-J7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2023 05:14:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rF50r-00025l-W7; Sun, 17 Dec 2023 23:13:54 -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 1rF50q-00025H-Kk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Dec 2023 23:13:52 -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 1rF50q-0004NJ-CN; Sun, 17 Dec 2023 23:13:52 -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=cE6XuDzdlLhJjwkNPjSDFvHXaKOzwwGWw2rLX6dlZ/Y=; b=c7ryJDpXYmVw fdb6nzNqp31kzFgyjIFYaUWIHN8zQ+XmK7f+98fwbTs1HbQYMDppi+TELKwEH6xoOocsa144mDsCp VnTropfPI+dUpRvGelI535qY/wkBsuD1Gusd2TSFyKHYCKlrE8ZeNx9IrwKE63np5UHjwOvBLp/MU /Iv7c6A07qpQBx5mp1DIoYEzrvolpjRjcBxolomkPraAFx3aMLhzT+r44Rivn1xpo+LBGLgcr/6yr fHG/vQ5ufxcs5hmyWbRS1p4lyHJpMbawP4zGFanIe8uMFqtPwarPNpORFTDvkCjOBw6BlZnx+Y8g2 AC9uth6gPQMVeG7uWqG+MQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rF50p-0007l8-1e; Sun, 17 Dec 2023 23:13:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: <25981.60640.979482.528976@orion.rgrjr.com> (message from Bob Rogers on Sat, 16 Dec 2023 10:30:56 -0800) 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:313971 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. ]]] > Suppose clauses only fall through if the last form is the literal symbol > :fall-through ? I'm not absolutely against it, but I think people will get used to fall-throgh clauses based on having one element. I'd like people to try to do that, so we can see whether people do become used to 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)