Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 17:08:38 -0400
> 
> Thanks.  What do you think of the patch below?

Thanks for doing this.

> I'd rather keep it defined in terms of its differences w.r.t `dolist`,
> but if really needed, we could change the doc so it doesn't rely on
> `dolist`s own doc at all.

I think the doc string should be (more) independent, at least in the
pcase-dolist case, because the semantics of executing BODY with
PATTERN matched against a LIST element is significantly different from
that of executing the dolist BODY with a VAR binding.  And the
description of that semantics is missing from the doc string you
propose.

> We do have to keep the reference to `pcase` because we don't want to
> repeat the definition of what a pcase pattern can look like.

I see no problem to say something like

  See `pcase' for the description of possible forms of PATTERN.