bug#14935: 24.3.50; pcase (or) UPAT fails?

[Vitalie Spinu]

Thanks Andreas and Stephen, 

I actually tried unquoting with comma before reporting. But it never
occurred to me that strings should be backticked. Strings are selfquoted
and, in my understanding, the following should have worked:

   (pcase "^" 
     ((or "^" "%") (message "here")))


The documentation says that strings are UPATs so 

   (pcase "^" 
     ("^" (message "here")))

works. Then docs also say that (or UPAT UPAT) is also an UPAT so (or "^"
"%") should also work. Do I miss anything?

Thanks, 

    Vitalie

 >> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
 >> on Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:44:49 -0400 wrote:

 >> This doesn't:
 >> (pcase (list 23 nil "%")
 >> (`(,scale nil (or "^" "%")) (message "%s" scale))
 >> (_ (message "failed")))

 >> Is this a bug?

 > No, it's normal.  The third pattern matches a list of 3 elements (the
 > first being the symbol `or').  You probably meant to do

 >    (pcase (list 23 nil "%")
 >      (`(,scale nil ,(or `"^" `"%")) (message "%s" scale))
 >      (_ (message "failed")))

 > -- Stefan