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RE: Question on pcase


From: Drew Adams
Subject: 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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