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Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 17:50:30 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:52:37 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> >>> Couldn't we also say that a pattern with "holes" is a destructuring 
> >>> pattern,
> >>> not matter if it is used in pcase-let, or just pcase?
> >> We could, but the reason why I'm trying to define a new term (which
> >> I called here "destructuring pattern") is to define what happens with
> >> pcase-let, pcase-dolist, pcase-let* where the pattern is assumed
> >> to match.
> > I only meant to say that introducing a term that somebody fairly familiar
> > with the subject might misinterpret without reading its definition in the
> > manual, could be suboptimal.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> > But don't mind me, I don't have any alternative proposals anyway.
> 
> Neither do I,

Can someone enlighten me regarding those "holes"?  What does that
allude to?



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