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: Another pcase-lambda Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 10:29:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20170919005637.GA19322@holos.localdomain> <87tvzwz3d2.fsf@web.de> <20170922213707.iujgqjjrg4vxcf4w@logos.localdomain> <87efqxijb3.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506177010 7527 195.159.176.226 (23 Sep 2017 14:30:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 14:30:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 23 16:30:07 2017 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 1dvlRU-0001ag-CM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2017 16:30:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35133 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvlRb-0007dK-HF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2017 10:30:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55343) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvlRU-0007d4-RH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2017 10:30:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvlRR-00057W-N7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2017 10:30:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=53360 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dvlRR-00056o-Ft for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2017 10:30:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dvlRG-0000t9-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2017 16:29:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:IdTXinGnrbNB8f4OAv6R9sH9o04= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] 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:218730 Archived-At: >> > BTW, what I sometimes do miss is `pcase-defun'. >> Was that a thing that existed? > No, it never existed, but maybe it should? pcase argument matching is > not only useful for anonymous functions. I often wanted it for named > helper functions and had to `defalias' to a `pcase-lambda'. There a "case" to be made that all variable bindings should support the pcase syntax (i.e. dolist should be pcase-dolist, let should be pcase-let, ...). Stefan