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Re: Instead of pcase


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Instead of pcase
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2023 20:40:28 +0200

> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2023 20:28:43 +0200
> Cc: joaotavora@gmail.com, owinebar@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org,
>  philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> 
> That just reaffirms my understanding that the main problem with 'pcase' 
> that we have is documentation. The nodes are written very bottom-up, 
> whereas what's really needed for someone to understand the core usage, 
> would look more like the first half of the node "Destructuring with 
> ‘pcase’ Patterns".

Suggestions to improve the documentation are always welcome.  However,
what we have now is the result of efforts by several people, so I'd
hesitate to conclude that the documentation is the main problem.

> Jim Porter's suggestions for improving the docs are in a separate thread 
> ("Improving 'pcase' documentation"), it really deserves more attention.

It already did get attention.  It will get much more when Jim posts
patches to the manual and the doc string.



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