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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cond* vs pcase
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:13:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86h6in0wr4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DU2PR02MB10109F1CBA5F7A8D78A597A5D96472@DU2PR02MB10109.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> (message from Arthur Miller on Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:30:57 +0100)

> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:30:57 +0100
> 
> To start with, I think none on this mailing list has asked this question
> yet (or have I missed it?): why does it have to be a single form that does all
> of the pattern stuff?

Asked and answered: it doesn't have to be a single form that does all.

> Why this obsession that we have to have one form, be it pcase or cond*, that
> covers all cases of pattern usage in conditions?

There's no obsession.

> My second objection is, as many other stated here; if pcase is that hard,
> resource heavy, and underdocumented, have you considred working to fix problems
> and on the documentation of pcase, perhaps with Stefan?

We are doing that as well.

> I understand the objections to pcase, but I don't understand the answer.

Hopefully, now you understand it better.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-05 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-05 14:30 cond* vs pcase Arthur Miller
2024-02-05 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-02-05 16:06 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-05 18:39   ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-06 12:30     ` Arthur Miller
2024-02-06 16:17     ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-06 16:35       ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-02-06 16:50       ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-06 17:27         ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-06 18:57           ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-06 19:04             ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-06 19:39               ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-06 23:17                 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-02-06 19:12             ` Drew Adams
2024-02-06 20:08               ` Adam Porter
2024-02-06 23:32                 ` Drew Adams
2024-02-07 13:14                   ` Arthur Miller
2024-02-07 13:43                     ` Po Lu
2024-02-07 17:09                       ` Drew Adams
2024-02-07 17:44                       ` Tomas Hlavaty
2024-02-09  3:52                         ` Richard Stallman
2024-02-07 18:00                       ` Arthur Miller
2024-02-07 18:22                         ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-08  1:55                           ` Po Lu
2024-02-08  2:49                             ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-08  3:36                               ` Po Lu
2024-02-08  7:04                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-08 17:01                               ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-08 17:01                             ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-09  1:30                               ` Po Lu
2024-02-08  5:01                         ` Po Lu
     [not found]                           ` <DU2PR02MB10109B7AC39F995BFE266EF5396442@DU2PR02MB10109.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
2024-02-08  7:36                             ` Sv: " Arthur Miller
2024-02-12 21:39                       ` Stefan Monnier via Emacs development discussions.
2024-02-07 17:14                     ` Drew Adams
2024-02-07  5:32             ` Yuri Khan
2024-02-07 12:43               ` Arthur Miller
2024-02-07 17:41                 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-07 18:36                   ` Arthur Miller
2024-02-07 19:12                     ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-07 21:20                       ` Arthur Miller
2024-02-06 17:29         ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-02-06 17:41           ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-06 17:50         ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-02-06 19:04           ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-07 15:03           ` Barry Fishman
2024-02-07 17:22             ` [External] : " Drew Adams

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