Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things.

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Kaushal Modi <address@hidden> writes:

> I would welcome a short tutorial on how (and why) to use pcase.

There are several examples shown here:

    http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PatternMatching

pcase makes a lot more sense if you're used to pattern matching in functional
languages, where you describe a pattern (not unlike destructuring-bind) whose
"shape" is intended to match the set of shapes you want to successful match
against.

Since pattern matching like this isn't something I had ever encountered
outside of FP, I agree that a tutorial is in order. I'm willing to volunteer
for this.

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