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: Re: cond* Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:51:39 -0500 Message-ID: References: <25992.56214.508459.273816@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="35598"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rogers@rgrjr.com, paaguti@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 29 04:52:13 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 1rJ3uv-000918-6R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2023 04:52:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rJ3uS-0000BD-Lg; Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:51:44 -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 1rJ3uO-0000As-8T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:51:40 -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 1rJ3uN-0004f1-KM; Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:51:39 -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=+oP3m9l1RsSZLf2hnxUDbYUA+t9/caoPF/k5IuivwS4=; b=GErCfa4WFxbt qcXe+eVnG1E8HeAjJYqtSC9aH++Bzvxxiv7m4xYyoopvQndygeobMrDLwmZ/23Di54i5e2PB3G4Gh KehNmIrE0+dU0IzjXdrEf+Hf9M9TVBjcaQPKG1r1X2JE8+kPOJVFlb6UgDAiqdiP9/7QbZay8y2Z0 fBJNBAdBwIdtPoLNQGe4LPbIwfv9uMFphbKCCCSeSHOwAs+/jK+Zo4LhViJCy4SIYYP6G1BnpFiFJ JMI77l3zRtq1wUHmFbWqwC/Ry1iP0lx7l26wN4oi9TPEK0SqK+9xpJpNA1Pp1VOjTwuVYq0QB9sVP yRrcjGXM4+f6+NibTnArdQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rJ3uN-0005LI-CE; Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:51:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Mon, 25 Dec 2023 03:49:30 +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:314301 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. ]]] > Yes, this is essentially what I and others > have said. It might be less confusing if > the name `cond*' weren't used, as that > really invites exactly such confusion. `cond*' means "much like `cond', but with some differences." That fits this feature and it's a natural name. Once you get used to the differences, if you permit yourself to do so. Fortunately, what there is to learn for `cond*' is far less than for `pcase'. I'd be willing to use a different name if it is better. Do you have any suggestions for another name? -- 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)