From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:05:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20151216202605.GA3752@acm.fritz.box> <56889EC3.3040108@yandex.ru> <877fjrkpdf.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <56892334.4000106@yandex.ru> <8760zakb7q.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <56892BDA.6060103@dancol.org> <871t9yk98g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <568936F0.3060505@yandex.ru> <87wprqitj5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <56893C8C.3060200@yandex.ru> <87oad2irtd.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <5689456A.1010601@yandex.ru> <87egdy8tyz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <56895FDE.4060406@yandex.ru> <8760za8r4a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9iunkcg.fsf@web.de> <87h8hc4xw2.fsf_-_@web.de> <83tvlcsnee.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540387261 16582 195.159.176.226 (24 Oct 2018 13:21:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 13:21:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 24 15:20:57 2018 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 1gFJ5i-0004BT-VM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:20:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48367 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFJ7p-0004IA-EY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:23:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50231) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFJ4g-0000xh-At for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:19:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFIsf-0004B3-Gc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=53684 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFIsf-000497-8W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:07:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gFIqP-0001N0-CY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:05:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:rPoBisW6oo7X+ZSWcs0gy+mfclg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:230624 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. ]]] >> >> > In what sense is the above cl-case more clear than the pcase equivalent? >> > I'm not saying the pcase version is better in those cases, but I think >> > the respective advantages and disadvantages pretty much balance out. >> >> I also wonder. Is it simply that people find pcase unfamiliar? > > My two cents: I like to write it, I don't like to read it. Same as for Joost: you're talking about the backquote syntax of pcase, whereas this thread is about cl-case vs pcase, where there's no backquote in sight. Stefan