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: cond* Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2024 23:31:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87frzuae9n.fsf@posteo.net> <871qbatqc8.fsf@posteo.net> <87wmsz7lzn.fsf@posteo.net> <87edf1m7lq.fsf@localhost> <87frze76wc.fsf@localhost> 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="14938"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ihor Radchenko Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 06 05:32:15 2024 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 1rLyM1-0003ed-9W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 06 Jan 2024 05:32:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rLyLV-0003BG-TS; Fri, 05 Jan 2024 23:31:41 -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 1rLyLT-0003Ao-6o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2024 23:31:39 -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 1rLyLS-0001lM-H0; Fri, 05 Jan 2024 23:31:38 -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=ZVANsX0aDTqxX7XhQ96afPuEtzpqY52EHiWqPnzGwV4=; b=D+NCPw02bFDI Dfh6pWhrztd/DlyQJn62BP8kFHdWM1I0tg0lsk8snlVihxLewFUbrwVbEZQub3pGUc7GCxs+nmVGd Q74EI3K82tWbszNjxXrAz6SIuWRdDdumcEbRFWH6XHBsEvHfch7vUmDFvT+V5YOmi5qq27K24CanQ 2i4ysTvgo5U5iTR3Z/vh/4htBZjvumYnF5QTvgGOHdzY3BhYOtLOXwzuiCaDoMNAlrCVr3ooqH0My x9QVnlDwEGLwKJ14tuicn+33dHy1cPv3Am+ghnjMM7TTXwjl/dbzxXcBTchbnlEK9xyi2OU6Lcf4N kvKwSbZ/x9P9gNoItDHu+w==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rLyLS-0000bh-7L; Fri, 05 Jan 2024 23:31:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87frze76wc.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:50:43 +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:314582 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. ]]] > > Should it mean a usual Emacs regular expression to match against a string? > In `pcase', string pattern matches against a string: Since the idea is pattern-matching, I think that a regexp is natural as well as more general. Why not do this? -- 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)