Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 31.10.2018 18:27, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 31.10.2018 18:13, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > Ah, the elements that are assigned by destructuring?  I indeed hoped
> > we could identify in some way the patterns which satisfy that
> > condition.  I didn't give up yet.
>
> Yeah, so we could say a pattern is a "destructuring" one if it 
> introduces new bindings, so to speak.
>
> Not sure if it will help with the manual entries, though.

...after all, a destructuring construct like pcase-dolist or pcase-let 
doesn't *have to* be used with destructuring patterns as defined above.

It would simply be pointless to do otherwise, most of the time, but they 
can be used with simple ones, too.