From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Quick pcase question
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 12:40:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvqh9hoj.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lh615gt8.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Wed, 2 Mar 2016 18:12:51 +0800")
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> I'm enjoying pcase quite a bit, particular when employed as a kind of
> improved destructuring-bind. I think I've got the hang of most of it
> (despite the docs being a bit... succinct)
They are being improved! It might be worth looking at the docs in
the Emacs-25 pre-releases.
> What I want to do is: "if this atom matches a predicate, the whole
> pattern matches, and also bind the atom to this local variable."
>
> Right now I'm making that work like this:
>
> (setq tst '(symbolla . "I'm the string"))
>
> (pcase tst
> (`(symbolla . ,(and x (pred stringp)))
> (message "cdr is a string: %s" x)))
>
> Is the ",(and x (pred stringp))" part really the simplest way of doing
> that? It just seems a little unintuitive.
I think that's it I am afraid. Don't trust me though, I am no expert.
Phil
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-02 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-02 10:12 Quick pcase question Eric Abrahamsen
2016-03-02 11:02 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-03-02 11:18 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-03-02 11:38 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-03-02 11:56 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-03-02 12:27 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-03-02 17:25 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-03 1:13 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-03-03 3:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-02 17:18 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-03 1:08 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-03-03 12:08 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-02 12:40 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
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