From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Question on pcase Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:17:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87r3kl22zk.fsf@web.de> References: <871tcngdv2.fsf@gmail.com> <87k2qe1u09.fsf@web.de> <83r3kmrtat.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445602697 12389 80.91.229.3 (23 Oct 2015 12:18:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 12:18:17 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 23 14:18:08 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1ZpbIH-0004qz-GW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:18:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38074 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpbIG-0002z8-UZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 08:18:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52621) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpbIB-0002z2-Vf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 08:17:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpbI6-0008H8-6u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 08:17:55 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54791) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpbI6-0008H4-0L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 08:17:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpbHz-0004Ze-V6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:17:44 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-0-245.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.0.245]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:17:43 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-0-245.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:17:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-0-245.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:h0az6PjCyXaVrJCSdptjFvnP36I= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:192478 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Maybe we should have some higher-level facility to expand a pcase into > a human-readable form. Would something like this be possible and > useful? Possible - maybe. Useful: IMHO no. `pcase' is simple and easy to learn. It just looks a bit frightening and strange at first. I would rather improve documentation or write an easy intro than invite people to avoid learning an excellent tool. Michael.