From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John Wiegley" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using "pcase" as part of names is inhelpful. Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2017 14:35:38 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1512859005 9937 195.159.176.226 (9 Dec 2017 22:36:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 22:36:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (darwin) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 09 23:36:39 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eNnjb-0002Gj-7Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2017 23:36:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42770 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eNnjb-0003Zc-Lo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2017 17:36:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33449) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eNniu-0003ZM-Tl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2017 17:35:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eNnir-0000BF-0n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2017 17:35:56 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38676) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eNniq-0000B9-T8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2017 17:35:52 -0500 Original-Received: from auth2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.228]:44815) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eNnij-0002sh-Eo; Sat, 09 Dec 2017 17:35:45 -0500 Original-Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailauth.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBCBF20B1F; Sat, 9 Dec 2017 17:35:43 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 09 Dec 2017 17:35:43 -0500 X-ME-Sender: Original-Received: from localhost (76-234-69-149.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net [76.234.69.149]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 711E924009; Sat, 9 Dec 2017 17:35:43 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 09 Dec 2017 17:00:58 -0500") Mail-Followup-To: Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:220836 Archived-At: >>>>> "RS" == Richard Stallman writes: 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. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2