From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pcase and minus-sign
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2016 10:43:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv60n1rpd6.fsf-monnier+Inbox@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c8abddf7-1a42-0f65-7108-f14e15d146ef@easy-emacs.de> ("Andreas Röhler"'s message of "Sat, 3 Dec 2016 09:04:02 +0100")
> Must confess some hardship of understanding. If an expression may evaluate
> to a certain value or not, that depends resp. may depend on the state at
> run-time.
No: whether it *will* evaluate to that value depends on the state at
run-time. But whether it *can* evaluate to it doesn't.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-03 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-30 12:12 pcase and minus-sign Andreas Röhler
2016-11-30 12:38 ` Joost Kremers
2016-11-30 13:30 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-11-30 13:31 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-11-30 13:39 ` tomas
2016-11-30 13:56 ` Joost Kremers
2016-11-30 15:23 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-11-30 15:34 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-11-30 15:48 ` Joost Kremers
2016-12-01 13:59 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-12-02 2:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-12-03 8:04 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-12-03 15:43 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-12-05 9:11 ` Andreas Röhler
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