From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using "pcase" as part of names is inhelpful.
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 15:01:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <caad050e-0f5b-906e-2e97-7c3f5afcb1c1@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2efo3edhh.fsf@newartisans.com>
On 12/09/2017 02:35 PM, John Wiegley wrote:
> RS> We could use 'plet' and 'plambda'. Or 'pattern-let' and 'pattern-lambda'.
>
> I prefer the latter two, and agree that pcase-let is inaccurately named.
Racket uses the names "match-let" and "match-lambda", which are clear
and would save eyeballs a bit compared to "pattern-let" and
"pattern-lambda".
https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/match.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-09 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-09 22:00 Using "pcase" as part of names is inhelpful Richard Stallman
2017-12-09 22:35 ` John Wiegley
2017-12-09 23:01 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2017-12-10 21:44 ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-10 1:07 ` Robert Weiner
2017-12-10 21:45 ` Richard Stallman
2017-12-11 14:31 ` Stefan Monnier
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