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 09:52:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83tvlcsnee.fsf@gnu.org> <86mur137n8.fsf@gmail.com> <20181029130132.GB4195@ACM> <20181029134722.GC4195@ACM> <87lg6gifnb.fsf@web.de> <87muqwxs7m.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <83h8h3jlyd.fsf@gnu.org> <8b897e43-679b-d38c-e185-0efe19c09342@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540993918 10470 195.159.176.226 (31 Oct 2018 13:51:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 13:51:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 31 14:51:54 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 1gHquW-0002Zo-M8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:51:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59654 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHqwd-0004Id-5d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:54:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49830) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHqvV-0004Fl-IO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:52:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHqvP-0002sS-Mq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:52:53 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:47325) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHqvP-0002mK-EX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:52:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id w9VDqbIm008652; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:52:38 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B4B65AE156; Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:52:37 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:41:30 +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 <6949> : streams <1802910> : uri <2741745> 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:230873 Archived-At: >>> Couldn't we also say that a pattern with "holes" is a destructuring pattern, >>> not matter if it is used in pcase-let, or just pcase? >> We could, but the reason why I'm trying to define a new term (which >> I called here "destructuring pattern") is to define what happens with >> pcase-let, pcase-dolist, pcase-let* where the pattern is assumed >> to match. > I only meant to say that introducing a term that somebody fairly familiar > with the subject might misinterpret without reading its definition in the > manual, could be suboptimal. Agreed. > But don't mind me, I don't have any alternative proposals anyway. Neither do I, Stefan