From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using "pcase" as part of names is inhelpful. Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 15:01:13 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1512860523 20977 195.159.176.226 (9 Dec 2017 23:02:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 23:02:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 To: Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 10 00:01:57 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eNo85-0005BU-50 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:01:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42822 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eNo8C-0004At-39 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2017 18:02:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38522) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eNo7X-0004Aa-Ha for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2017 18:01:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eNo7S-0003Wg-Et for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2017 18:01:23 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:56182) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eNo7S-0003Q9-9C; Sat, 09 Dec 2017 18:01:18 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54592161342; Sat, 9 Dec 2017 15:01:15 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id PdhP5nqJe838; Sat, 9 Dec 2017 15:01:14 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 226A7161387; Sat, 9 Dec 2017 15:01:14 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id OYBlQNjsgEtK; Sat, 9 Dec 2017 15:01:14 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 05F921612CE; Sat, 9 Dec 2017 15:01:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220837 Archived-At: On 12/09/2017 02:35 PM, John Wiegley wrote: > RS> We could use 'plet' and 'plambda'. Or 'pattern-let' and 'pattern-lambda'. > > I prefer the latter two, and agree that pcase-let is inaccurately named. Racket uses the names "match-let" and "match-lambda", which are clear and would save eyeballs a bit compared to "pattern-let" and "pattern-lambda". https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/match.html