Re: Instead of pcase

[Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>]

On 28/11/2023 04:44, Richard Stallman wrote:
>    > I suggest you try rewriting the definition of completion-help-at-point
>    > using your alternative construct.
> 
> I did that, and found that translating that particular pcase to use
> cond* resulted in something about equally complex.

I guess that's the point I wanted to underscore: that those pcase uses 
are more-or-less optimal in terms of complexity (for its ultimate 
goals), that in most cases it comes from the problem domain rather than 
from the solution.

And I'm guessing your solutions were more verbose, if anything.

> But I recognized
> some changess to make in cond* as a result.  Those changes are in the
> newer version I sent out during the weekend.

Happy to help. Though note that simply adding a new way to do the same 
thing that's not better by a sufficiently large margin, usually leads to 
"now we have N+1 standards".