From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: pcase defuns Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2022 23:48:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16736"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andrew Hyatt Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 19 05:49:05 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ngerQ-0004FD-Lp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2022 05:49:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47490 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ngerP-0000oV-FG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2022 23:49:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41276) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ngeqU-0007p8-BE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2022 23:48:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58360) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ngeqU-00034Y-1n; Mon, 18 Apr 2022 23:48:06 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=AlWzLtgeJSREmaRbBSxASbYqBmsQc5uf7Xv6ApTMPQ4=; b=qpkZDuEXplHe qbXtRPutKe4WIcXCi/Wl777BR5wwrupAb/1JoACQcDawBBKwnnNpSLm51bO3J06/wITGDiwvZbIP5 ijl3PRq1hvuAS2+K7epSCdx1wzZl9ZJe+enND2EQup5R/lQKT42u9EdhPZPPf/SeknpOT9jWI53+j QbUTwOJp18QbeAHmFQTzsgECSfEA3s7Rr0wHrL8J96koxBzsMpv1VMoI1J9aBmao0UYzdkEfgNC8i MOnjGMT0DYnJ5CQdb1EcIvoSJVRGA1vtq3FqSwra7BoxD7xObYFfKzGQt80Fsy4oRVwiNG7IVaNle pima5A2yFMxuzrg4hCJ8TA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ngeqT-0007La-Qh; Mon, 18 Apr 2022 23:48:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Andrew Hyatt on Sun, 17 Apr 2022 18:09:24 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:288644 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. ]]] > Thanks for the suggestion. I've implemented a new version along > the lines you suggested. So now things look like: > (defun-pattern fibonacci (n) > "Compute the fibonacci sequence." The doc string should use the arguments and describe what an individual call does. Thusm Return the Nth fibonacci number. Aside from that, I have no further comments. I don't have an opinion about how useful this is.