From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13678: 24.2.93; pcase: mention list-like QPatterns in the doc Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:49:33 +0100 Message-ID: <87d2w8xdn6.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: michael_heerdegen@web.de NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1360518531 22723 80.91.229.3 (10 Feb 2013 17:48:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:48:51 +0000 (UTC) To: 13678@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 10 18:49:12 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1U4b1b-0002RI-M3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:49:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56229 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4b1I-0002gJ-EF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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QPAT2) matches if QPAT1 matches the car and QPAT2 the cdr. | ,UPAT matches if the UPattern UPAT matches. | STRING matches if the object is `equal' to STRING. | ATOM matches if the object is `eq' to ATOM. `---------------------------------------------------------------------- I think it should also mention list-like patterns (without dot): (QPat1 ...QPatn) matches any n-element list were each element matches the according QPattern Sure, `(QPAT1 . QPAT2)' also matches lists - but `(QPAT1 . QPAT2)' and `(QPat1 ...QPatn)' are different forms (expressions) (although those expressions could match equal values), so IMHO both should be mentioned. Thanks, Michael. 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