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RE: Question on pcase
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Drew Adams |
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RE: Question on pcase |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Oct 2015 10:36:58 -0700 (PDT) |
> > (I did not look at the original, but a guess might be that
> > someone reading Info should see PRED here (no quotes), not
> > `pred'.
>
> You're wrong here. :-) `pred' is an actual keyword in the
> pcase mechanism.
OK. I guessed wrong.
> > Another guess, again without consulting the text, is that perhaps you
> > don't need both "pattern" and "form": "pattern form".)
>
> I think they're both meaningful - the "pattern" is a description of what
> is being matched, and the "form" is the lisp form which achieves this
> matching. I think.
OK again. I was (mis)guessing that "form" just referred here
to a piece of the pattern - a subpattern.
> > And I too thank Michael for helping us (all) understand the
> > obtuse creature that is `pcase'. It is comforting (and all
> > too rare, it seems) to see such careful interest in helping
> > Emacs document itself. Kudos - very helpful.
>
> Very helpful indeed!
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- pcase docstring tweaks (was: Question on pcase), Michael Heerdegen, 2015/10/24
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- Re: pcase docstring tweaks, Richard Stallman, 2015/10/27
- Re: pcase docstring tweaks, Michael Heerdegen, 2015/10/28
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- Re: Question on pcase, Alan Mackenzie, 2015/10/24
- RE: Question on pcase,
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