From: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Nicolas Petton <nicolas@petton.fr>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] map 988d721: Add a pcase pattern for maps and `map-let' based on it
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 10:09:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bngupoek.fsf@petton.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv6173w19r.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org>
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Stefan Monnier writes:
>>> - let KEY be evaluated rather than having it be quoted. I.e. require
>>> the programmer to write 'a when looking up the key `a'. It costs an
>>> extra quote in some/many cases, but does give you extra power.
>> Do you think it would be worth it? I'm not sure.
>
> Not sure either; it will clearly depend on actual uses.
> This said, if the main case where the quote would be needed is when KEY
> is a (non-keyword) symbol, then it's probably worth the extra
> flexibility since you could say that an element of the form SYMBOL is
> treated as equivalent to ('SYMBOL SYMBOL), so the extra quote will be
> very rarely needed.
Good point.
Nico
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2015-06-03 1:06 ` [Emacs-diffs] map 988d721: Add a pcase pattern for maps and `map-let' based on it Stefan Monnier
2015-06-04 20:18 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-06-04 22:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-05 8:09 ` Nicolas Petton [this message]
2015-06-07 18:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-06-08 14:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-08 15:34 ` Michael Heerdegen
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