Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Heerdegen <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 19:55:23 +0100
> 
> I wouldn't call a `let' or `app' pattern that introduces a new binding
> destructuring per se.  OTOH, I would call a pattern using ` that tests
> e.g. the car of the matched object with e.g. `pred' destructuring even
> if that car is not bound to a variable.

Can you give an example?  I don't think I follow.

> With other words: I would say a pattern where subpatterns are matched
> against parts of a compound object is desctructuring.

But note that your generalization is inconsistent with your example:
there's no "pattern matching" in the example, there's only a "matched
object", which is a matching of an entirely different kind.