From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A protest against pcase, pcase-let, pcase-let* Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 03:19:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20150331180029.GF2871@acm.fritz.box> <87d23ob247.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427959205 1851 80.91.229.3 (2 Apr 2015 07:20:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 07:20:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 02 09:20:00 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 1YdZPz-0002QK-QU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2015 09:19:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56256 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdZPy-0007H4-U8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2015 03:19:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35239) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdZP4-0006Ij-Lv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2015 03:19:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdZP3-0006lW-Fp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2015 03:19:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57434) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdZP3-0006lL-Dp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Apr 2015 03:19:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YdZP2-0006EK-BF; Thu, 02 Apr 2015 03:19:00 -0400 In-reply-to: <87d23ob247.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> (phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:184775 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Since pcase is not described in the Intro to Emacs Lisp Programming, its documentation in the Lisp Reference Manual needs to be clear enough to make sense to someone who does not know about it. Would people please work on improving it? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.