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: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 10:59:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20151216202605.GA3752@acm.fritz.box> <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> <86mur137n8.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540565920 28394 195.159.176.226 (26 Oct 2018 14:58:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 14:58:40 +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 Fri Oct 26 16:58:36 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 1gG3ZJ-0007G1-Ne for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2018 16:58:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60522 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gG3bQ-0007Al-4C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2018 11:00:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36518) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gG3aH-0007AL-RL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2018 10:59:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gG3aA-0005pt-8d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2018 10:59:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=52507 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gG3a4-0005oc-09 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2018 10:59:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gG3Xu-0005MX-9R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2018 16:57:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:fspvNpULxSp4zPg8dpkqqPZoRVU= 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:230706 Archived-At: > Pattern matching is a useful facility, but pcase is woefully hard to use > correctly, as the existing (mis-)usage shows. Something that is > significantly easier to read and comprehend is needed. I was just pointing out that it is easy to *experiment* with new syntaxes (in order to find a new syntax so as to solve the current problems). Stefan "not convinced there's a solution to this problem, tho"