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bug#9567: curious match bug (?)
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Andy Wingo |
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bug#9567: curious match bug (?) |
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Date: |
Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:51:00 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri 23 Sep 2011 16:45, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Could it be a feature?
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> (let ((pat '('a _ ...)))
> (match '(a b c) (pat #t)))
> => #t
`match' compiles patterns to Scheme code at macro expansion time. It
doesn't do runtime matching. Are you thinking that `pat' is being used
as a pattern? It is not:
(let ((pat '('b _ ...)))
(match '(a b c) (pat #t)))
=> #t
If it were a pattern, it would not match. It is a bug IMO.
Andy
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