Re: Quick pcase question

[Michael Heerdegen]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> But the fact is that pcase is (very complex and very useful) syntax
> sugar. I just wrote a pcase clause that looks like:
>
> `((,(and f-string (pred stringp)) . ,(and class (pred symbolp)))
> . ,(and regexp (pred stringp)))
>
> And that's kind of awful. The whole point of pcase should be concision,
> but that looks pretty terrible.

:-P

Maybe separate the testing and the binding operations, like:


#+begin_src emacs-lisp

  (and `((,(pred stringp) . ,(pred symbolp)) . ,(pred stringp))
       `((,f-string       . ,class         ) . ,regexp))

#+end_src


Regards,

Michael.