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: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:30:06 -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> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540902509 17463 195.159.176.226 (30 Oct 2018 12:28:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:28:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Michael Heerdegen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eric Abrahamsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 30 13:28:25 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 1gHT8C-0004RI-VO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:28:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52912 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHTAJ-0002Ki-IS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:30:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57887) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHTA8-0002KW-6r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:30:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHT9z-0004r8-IK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:30:21 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:38558) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHT9z-0004pq-BA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:30:15 -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 w9UCU652013186; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:30:06 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 889FC6A445; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:30:06 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87muqwxs7m.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:12:45 -0700") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Level: X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 3 Rules triggered GEN_SPAM_FEATRE=0.1, EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6407=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6407> : inlines <6947> : streams <1802809> : uri <2741042> 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:230819 Archived-At: > I wonder if the manual shouldn't have a section somewhere making > explicit the difference between `pcase' -- where a single value is > matched against many patterns, and may fail to match altogether, and > destructuring is only one of the use-cases -- and the other Yes, I'll send a patch for that, Stefan