Re: pcase and minus-sign

[Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>]

Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:

> Thanks, that helps. Seems it relates to the following in docstring:
>
> SYMBOL    matches anything and binds it to SYMBOL.

Exactly.


> Now if I use some arbitrary char, like "a",
>
> (defun foo (arg)
>   (interactive "P")
>   (pcase arg
>     (a (message "%s" "ARG was `a'"))
>     (1 (message "%s" "ARG was `1'"))
>     ('- (message "%s" "ARG was minus-sign"))
>     (_ (message "%s" "ARG not minus-sign"))))
>
> It picks that a-branch at any case - as documented but strange.

It's not so strange anymore if you correct the message string ;-)


Michael.