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Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources
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Garreau\, Alexandre |
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Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources |
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Thu, 01 Nov 2018 06:21:49 +0100 |
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On 2018/11/01 at 06:10, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2018 02:40:23 +0100
>>
>> On 2018-10-30 at 21:54, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> > No, I think "destructuring" is about right. How about this text:
>> >
>> > @dfn{Destructuring} of an object is an operation that extracts
>> > multiple values stored in the object, e.g., the 2nd and the 3rd
>> > element of a list or a vector. @dfn{Destructuring binding} is
>> > similar to a local binding (@pxref{Local Variables}), but it gives
>> > values to multiple elements of a variable by extracting those values
>> > from an object of compatible structure.
>>
>> “(car list)” is extracting a value stored in an object, yet it’s not
>> destructuring (though a list is a structure). Nor even is “(cons (car
>> list) (caddr list))” or “(setq a (nth 1 list) b (nth 2 list))”.
>
> You forget the "multiple" part in the description.
Then you forgot “(cons (car list) (caddr list))” which I proposed later.
> "Destructuring" is not a term that Emacs invented.
Yes, learnt it reading stuff about python and ocaml, afair.
> You can look it up on the Internet; I think you will find that the
> adopted definitions are similar to what I wrote.
Yes, and these are wrong.
> So we don't need to try too hard in this case, as someone else already
> did that for us.
Not “too hard”, nor “hard” at all, nor even correctly. Or then, any
reference (hence extraction) to something inside a structure, when done
several time, is destructuring, and as this ought to be possible if
structures exist, any language with structures / compound data, does
destructuring all the time. But when talking about destructuring such
as in cl-destructuring-bind, pcase, python/ml/js multiple-assignments,
this is different.
Wasn’t my definition attempt okay? it even defined three quite used and
intuitive terms.
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/11/01
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources,
Garreau\, Alexandre <=
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/11/01
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Garreau\, Alexandre, 2018/11/01
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/11/01
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, TEIRLLM, 2018/11/01
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Richard Stallman, 2018/11/02
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Nix, 2018/11/04
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, Garreau\, Alexandre, 2018/11/04
- Re: Replace trivial pcase occurrences in the Emacs sources, TEIRLLM, 2018/11/01