From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things. Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 15:34:39 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20151216202605.GA3752@acm.fritz.box> <20151217212633.GC1888@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450395368 30970 80.91.229.3 (17 Dec 2015 23:36:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 23:36:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers , Kaushal Modi To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 18 00:36:02 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a9i5Y-0006Do-If for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:36:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57629 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9i5X-0004fV-Jj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 18:35:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56138) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9i5T-0004eO-Qj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 18:35:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9i5Q-0008JT-OL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 18:35:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-x234.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c03::234]:35860) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9i5Q-0008JI-J1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 18:35:52 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-pa0-x234.google.com with SMTP id q3so29846081pav.3 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 15:35:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:date:message-id:references :user-agent:mail-followup-to:mime-version:content-type; bh=vz/sSgVmhKi3dd/5E3hevPsrDScukDKburOFkdxAXPw=; b=efyjInc/+I4oHTFviG1jNmy6/7sX+ZLLD7f+311kW9DaXXB5wvsaQJvdpJD0camgqX mEklHTahIrbKbCHnYtHY9os9s0CbiKUPOCx6LfZe6qA2+KyL6b5OrbEbvHu1hxXhBvqv HfGmdKFg9iT/auwi4YLHL7BbGsJxE0kHxhRogu2kLyeYQLyH3VnV89ns56uIqklMSGbG AjU6C643V/1kkwQdu6eCbWUiIRhuQjJaH2xysb5zDAD1aakwJFeFcHnr1RIvEflVskFQ MZMbz+tW88AmutnKYEYTAqSFhnjMebOSvpMTs/AJEjXLsAFZ6jOq2sLC/8EqcaAS9lwq Wbcg== X-Received: by 10.66.155.8 with SMTP id vs8mr747968pab.18.1450395352034; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 15:35:52 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Vulcan.local (76-234-68-79.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net. [76.234.68.79]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 79sm13588570pfk.33.2015.12.17.15.35.49 (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 17 Dec 2015 15:35:50 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Original-From: "John Wiegley" Original-Received: by Vulcan.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id EFE8011970B3E; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 15:35:48 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20151217212633.GC1888@acm.fritz.box> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Thu, 17 Dec 2015 21:26:33 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Mail-Followup-To: Alan Mackenzie , Kaushal Modi , Emacs developers X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::234 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:196439 Archived-At: >>>>> Alan Mackenzie writes: > An external tutorial is all well and good, and very useful. But it is > drifting off topic ever so slightly. I was hoping the tutorial would become part of the Elisp manual. And I agree that we should lift "Pattern Matching" to a higher-level topic. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2