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Re: Quick pcase question


From: Michael Heerdegen
Subject: Re: Quick pcase question
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 12:38:30 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.91 (gnu/linux)

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> It's not so much the simplicity, I guess, as the intuitiveness --
> "(and x" looks like a test to me, not an assignment.

That's a valid point, I think.

Maybe it would be better to avoid reusing names of frequently used
functions.  We could e.g. use "all" or "every" instead of "and", "any"
or "some" instead of "or", and "bind" instead of "let", to avoid
misleading associations in our brains.


Regards,

Michael.




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