From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Question on pcase Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:26:41 +0300 Message-ID: <837fmdzpf2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871tcngdv2.fsf@gmail.com> <87k2qe1u09.fsf@web.de> <83r3kmrtat.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3kl22zk.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445606868 16467 80.91.229.3 (23 Oct 2015 13:27:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 13:27:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 23 15:27:39 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 1ZpcNX-0008CB-7y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 15:27:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38485 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpcNW-0001n5-IV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:27:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42922) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpcN5-0001ef-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:27:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpcN1-0006YB-AA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:27:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:38577) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpcN1-0006Y7-2V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 09:26:59 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NWO00H00D4IJC00@mtaout25.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:24:22 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NWO0088GD8L8SA0@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:24:22 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87r3kl22zk.fsf@web.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.181 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:192485 Archived-At: > From: Michael Heerdegen > Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:17:35 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Maybe we should have some higher-level facility to expand a pcase into > > a human-readable form. Would something like this be possible and > > useful? > > Possible - maybe. Useful: IMHO no. `pcase' is simple and easy to > learn. Evidently, at least one developer found it daunting. > It just looks a bit frightening and strange at first. I would > rather improve documentation or write an easy intro than invite > people to avoid learning an excellent tool. How about doing both? Maybe that will prompt people to learn about pcase rather than hate it and stay away of it?