From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things. Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 16:57:52 +0200 Message-ID: <568936F0.3060505@yandex.ru> References: <20151216202605.GA3752@acm.fritz.box> <87io3m60bq.fsf@web.de> <877fk1nnk0.fsf@web.de> <8760zlue3j.fsf@gmail.com> <87vb7kajgv.fsf@web.de> <83y4c9ag06.fsf@gnu.org> <87bn95m9eg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <5686CDFB.2010105@dancol.org> <83fuygcs5g.fsf@gnu.org> <56886E32.70305@yandex.ru> <83si2f9ve4.fsf@gnu.org> <56889EC3.3040108@yandex.ru> <877fjrkpdf.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <56892334.4000106@yandex.ru> <8760zakb7q.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <56892BDA.6060103@dancol.org> <871t9yk98g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451833097 11581 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2016 14:58:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 14:58:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, Eli Zaretskii , emacs-tangents@gnu.org To: David Kastrup , Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 03 15:58:08 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-emacs-tangents@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 1aFk6i-0008IQ-2x for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 15:58:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41825 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFk6e-0005vv-G8 for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 09:58:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41787) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFk6a-0005vg-V7 for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 09:58:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFk6V-0003Hi-Vw for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 09:58:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wm0-x235.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::235]:32977) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFk6V-0003Hd-Oa; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 09:57:55 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-wm0-x235.google.com with SMTP id f206so148154277wmf.0; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 06:57:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=i8cWpRxw2By86omTPHZ4SfGjPEjCNB9OGkVCx6Hx1WA=; b=zfTe8e4n2Te+GorgVYYIAHinpCGwiOur8UdgZsnMzxQAku8QvMhWqLdmw/kvBLJDBx hskox2Djyq9V4Fjc2fkxX7NW9BuRTtq2+1Sm9YlirkyNUGxJ6XBfZmfB6cxd37wMyok6 EYYaq8nZITA9P4J9y5GLmwOJMaq2Af6s24yBr61AhLDnFHBQqBD05VZmky6YFcbYBo1F CtX/3ttxvkPp00xr5iu9l36hg0fcYhr+eemq58IppjwpHVlq93TGOLMkrW/yG3oMI0mU Mu7tMRiKVXtBynipxpJz88OPIZzfZ5uR3M1ZL7vw8JKjYJZ9Aw4NPCFvNfoDXW65PwNy mEyw== X-Received: by 10.194.161.166 with SMTP id xt6mr50693131wjb.98.1451833074884; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 06:57:54 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([185.105.175.24]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id 75sm33321356wmo.22.2016.01.03.06.57.53 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 03 Jan 2016 06:57:53 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/43.0 In-Reply-To: <871t9yk98g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c09::235 X-BeenThere: emacs-tangents@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.tangents:64 Archived-At: On 01/03/2016 04:50 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > So it should not get fixed or made more consistent with expectations? I think you should file bug(s) with specific examples and improvements. > Its forced use of `quasiquote' where `quote' would suffice were it > properly implemented is a contributor to the "there must be something > non-obvious going on" impression. IIUC, you can use quotes where they would "suffice".