Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things.

[Michael Heerdegen]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> (Time passes...)  Ah, I see: I was confused by John's different style:
> "now bound to foo" vs "bind it to foo".  These actually intend to say
> the same thing: "match anything and bind it to foo", but the former
> wording made it sound like it was already bound to foo before, i.e. as
> if the first pattern _uses_ the existing binding of foo, instead of
> binding foo.

Yes, exactly.

> Silly me, trying to assign too much importance to the wording.

Ok, but the words are there to explain the thing, so...


Regards,

Michael.