From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things. Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 19:50:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <20151216202605.GA3752@acm.fritz.box> <87io3m60bq.fsf@web.de> <877fk1nnk0.fsf@web.de> <8760zlue3j.fsf@gmail.com> <87vb7kajgv.fsf@web.de> <83y4c9ag06.fsf@gnu.org> <87bn95m9eg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451706631 11767 80.91.229.3 (2 Jan 2016 03:50:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 03:50:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Heerdegen , Eli Zaretskii , Emacs Development To: Richard Copley , David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 02 04:50:18 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aFDCs-00047z-An for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2016 04:50:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37404 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFDCo-0004q0-Ap for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2016 22:50:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41465) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFDCl-0004pj-Dg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2016 22:50:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFDCk-0003XD-Lt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2016 22:50:11 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:36575) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFDCg-0003VY-PU; Fri, 01 Jan 2016 22:50:06 -0500 Original-Received: from aserv0022.oracle.com (aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id u023o33w018535 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Sat, 2 Jan 2016 03:50:05 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0122.oracle.com (aserv0122.oracle.com [141.146.126.236]) by aserv0022.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u023o3Dd000497 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Sat, 2 Jan 2016 03:50:03 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0011.oracle.com (abhmp0011.oracle.com [141.146.116.17]) by aserv0122.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u023o3Oi032417; Sat, 2 Jan 2016 03:50:03 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:197332 Archived-At: > > I'm not fond of eq for numeric comparisons: that's an Elispism. >=20 > That's Elisp programs for you. I'd have used zerop. Only if you can be sure that `skip' is a number, or you want to raise an error if it is not.