From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk>,
phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A protest against pcase, pcase-let, pcase-let*
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 15:16:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <551BE19E.8080107@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k2xw12d4.fsf@ferrier.me.uk>
On 04/01/2015 03:04 PM, Nic Ferrier wrote:
> I think it's awful, personally.
That's a strong statement to make without specific arguments.
> I don't recall any discussion about whether it would be useful
> either. Unlike for, say, the yield stuff which has to be debated
> forever.
pcase is years old, and nobody has proposed an alternative yet.
> There are much better, more lisp idiomatic, libs for doing pattern
> matching which pcase should give way to imo.
>
> Shadchen for example.
Your case would be stronger is Shadchen was at least in GNU ELPA.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-01 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-31 18:00 A protest against pcase, pcase-let, pcase-let* Alan Mackenzie
2015-03-31 18:29 ` John Wiegley
2015-04-18 1:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2015-03-31 19:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-01 7:46 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-04-01 9:59 ` Phillip Lord
2015-04-01 12:04 ` Nic Ferrier
2015-04-01 12:16 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2015-04-01 13:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-02 7:19 ` Richard Stallman
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