Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:09:18 -0400
> 
> > And I already read that, and hoped for some more details.  Should I
> > give up?
> 
> As I said, I'm not interested in a docstring that repeats what
> dolist does; I want it to explain the difference between dolist and
> pcase-dolist (because that's how pcase-dolist is defined both in terms
> of design and in terms of implementation).

I didn't say we should repeat what dolist does, so our interests don't
necessarily conflict yet.  I tried to explain earlier what I thought
was missing, here it is again:

> matching doesn't assign any values to anything directly related to
> BODY, so the mechanism by which it affects execution of BODY needs
> to be described.

Could you please fill that void?  This isn't a repetition of what
dolist does.

TIA