From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
To: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
Cc: yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cond* vs pcase
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 12:41:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1rXlvi-0006dO-4l@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DU2PR02MB1010957DC7792B6B841C5892496452@DU2PR02MB10109.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> (message from Arthur Miller on Wed, 07 Feb 2024 13:43:30 +0100)
I am not sure if Alfred meant that in his first message, perhaps he did, but
Drew seems to be more in line with that thinking. At least I understand him so.
I'm not alluding to any specific design principle, the core issue at
hand is communicating with the person reading the code.
The reason why we have ASSOC, ASSQ, ... are because they make it
_clear_, _easy_ to understand code and to _use_. A generic version is
not as easy to understand, or use. Which is also a reason why
keywords are generally eskewed in Emacs Lisp.
So no, it would not be much better to have one function to rule them
all ... we have LAMBDA, and we sure do now want to write Y combinators
all over the place.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-07 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-05 14:30 cond* vs pcase Arthur Miller
2024-02-05 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-05 16:06 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-05 18:39 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-06 12:30 ` Arthur Miller
2024-02-06 16:17 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-06 16:35 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-02-06 16:50 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-06 17:27 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-06 18:57 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-06 19:04 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-06 19:39 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-06 23:17 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-02-06 19:12 ` Drew Adams
2024-02-06 20:08 ` Adam Porter
2024-02-06 23:32 ` Drew Adams
2024-02-07 13:14 ` Arthur Miller
2024-02-07 13:43 ` Po Lu
2024-02-07 17:09 ` Drew Adams
2024-02-07 17:44 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2024-02-09 3:52 ` Richard Stallman
2024-02-07 18:00 ` Arthur Miller
2024-02-07 18:22 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-08 1:55 ` Po Lu
2024-02-08 2:49 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-02-08 3:36 ` Po Lu
2024-02-08 7:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-02-08 17:01 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-08 17:01 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-09 1:30 ` Po Lu
2024-02-08 5:01 ` Po Lu
[not found] ` <DU2PR02MB10109B7AC39F995BFE266EF5396442@DU2PR02MB10109.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
2024-02-08 7:36 ` Sv: " Arthur Miller
2024-02-12 21:39 ` Stefan Monnier via Emacs development discussions.
2024-02-07 17:14 ` Drew Adams
2024-02-07 5:32 ` Yuri Khan
2024-02-07 12:43 ` Arthur Miller
2024-02-07 17:41 ` Alfred M. Szmidt [this message]
2024-02-07 18:36 ` Arthur Miller
2024-02-07 19:12 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-07 21:20 ` Arthur Miller
2024-02-06 17:29 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-02-06 17:41 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-06 17:50 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-02-06 19:04 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-02-07 15:03 ` Barry Fishman
2024-02-07 17:22 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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