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, 31 Oct 2018 15:37:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20151216202605.GA3752@acm.fritz.box> <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> <87pnw037ar.fsf@web.de> <83ftwvs7y9.fsf@gnu.org> <877ei7mkfh.fsf@web.de> <87a7mze7tl.fsf@web.de> <831s89mo03.fsf@gnu.org> <87pnvsifxt.fsf@web.de> <83muqwkkt1.fsf@gnu.org> <875zxjv3ku.fsf@web.de> <83o9bbjqcj.fsf@gnu.org> <87r2g7t7bo.fsf@web.de> <83tvl2hzt6.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1541014538 31336 195.159.176.226 (31 Oct 2018 19:35:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 19:35:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Michael Heerdegen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 31 20:35:34 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 1gHwH8-00080A-4D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 20:35:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33204 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHwJE-0002HE-Nk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:37:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50100) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHwJ6-0002Gv-KS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:37:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHwIx-0002RY-7g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:37:33 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:58282) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHwIo-0002Mu-8z; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:37:21 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id w9VJbC1j022950; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:37:13 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id C9F036A47D; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:37:12 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83tvl2hzt6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 31 Oct 2018 17:59:49 +0200") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6408=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6408> : inlines <6950> : streams <1802932> : uri <2741898> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 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:230906 Archived-At: > Really? Can you show a few examples? Maybe there's something wrong > with our documentation if people make such mistakes. I don't think calling them mistakes is right. It might just be a stylistic preference on the part of the author, or it can be the result of evolution of code (where the data started as non-self-quoting and the quote wasn't removed when the data changed), but it still perfectly valid. Stefan