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, 22 Dec 2023 21:53:32 -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="38516"; 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 23 03:54:28 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 1rGs9j-0009qx-No for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 23 Dec 2023 03:54:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rGs8y-0000wZ-PP; Fri, 22 Dec 2023 21:53:40 -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 1rGs8s-0000uW-P2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Dec 2023 21:53:36 -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 1rGs8r-0007Mx-IR; Fri, 22 Dec 2023 21:53:34 -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=lamSb24mEC9T/qjzDTt5zz7CEYk5DQwyQ6bvTbv3pug=; b=SbSvU1XDUnqW Pedg4714iGOJid2pWjvNURwKZbzipaYwUidMnoA/8J4Qux9JYf9WunXof2sy6mH7/J7qlpgU4K2Hr NKOMX5qY3jchzbX/vDj5RX/YGdHYRH6vkrzxH502wMvTHtv7O3RszTlsU1ZTTKjvfkl34FBAXahor 18rvLgcSpk0CYNX3ck12vAIJawetfCdSL6MlnRK4v+hfxrEv5K8NQEtSx9Ygjcxk5Mccs5f7MQ8vv iA6gdq1wQf9LB/2nAifylBM64IP31GYNxBLYiLtqyC8+bCCTIm5+KdAXlKMoiYTwGq220qDFIjan9 yJ/bJ/otdJXMnsQL3NitVA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rGs8q-0005T4-TX; Fri, 22 Dec 2023 21:53:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Adam Porter on Wed, 20 Dec 2023 04:52:17 -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:314091 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. ]]] > > I could not fully make sense of the first one: I don't understand > > what you intend it to do, or what you think it might do, or why it > > might do that. > Yes, that is part of the point I am making: that the way COND* binds > variables and passes them to predicate forms is confusing. For me, what is confusing is the rest of those examples, such as the use of subroutines called `bar' which do various things that you didn't explain. If you tell me what you are trying to do in each case, I could show you examples of how to do it in a simple way with cond*. -- 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)