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Re: Using "pcase" as part of names is inhelpful.
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Using "pcase" as part of names is inhelpful. |
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Sun, 10 Dec 2017 16:44:55 -0500 |
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> RS> We could use 'plet' and 'plambda'. Or 'pattern-let' and
'pattern-lambda'.
> I prefer the latter two, and agree that pcase-let is inaccurately named.
If they are unusual and obscure, 'pattern-...' are better.
If they are widely used and all Emacs Lisp programmers know about them,
'p...' are better.
> Racket uses the names "match-let" and "match-lambda",
Those names are reasonable, too -- but they would not be similar
to 'pcase'.
Should we rename 'pcase' to 'match-case'? In principle there is nothing
wrong with that. But if we expect all these names to become everyday
Lisp usage, we'd be better off with 'p'.
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