Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 31.10.2018 21:20, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > a “walking stick” is a stick that is used for walking, or a “thinking
> > cap” is a cap for thinking. They don’t walk and think on their own,
> > but are tools used in a specific activity.
>
> No, they are tools that help in that activity: the stick helps in
> walking, the hat helps thinking.
>
> By contrast, those patterns don't "help" destructuring in any way I
> could spot.

Surely they do: they provide the whole destructuring logic, in a 
declarative way. pcase then simply interprets it according to its rules.