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Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 09:28:25 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> Doc strings which specify fully the arguments to these macros, including
> their semantics, and say what the macros do.  The current doc strings
> (at least some of them) for these macros don't do this.

I understand this in theory, but I don't know what it means in this
concrete case.

> I've had such questions in the past, and had to answer them by time
> consuming guessing, reading the source of pcase-..., and
> experimentation.

Do you remember them enough to describe the problems, so we can try and
improve the doc accordingly?

> Adequate documentation would have saved me a great deal of time,
> frustration, and uncertainty.

I don't doubt it.  But I'm sadly not able to guess what those problems
might be.


        Stefan




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