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

[David Kastrup]

Michael Heerdegen <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Some of the quoted pcase examples indeed felt like the "if your
>> preferred tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail"
>> phenomenon.
>
> Ironically, the same applies to Emacs itself  ;-)
>
>> There certainly is a case for liberal use of complex complexity-taming
>> constructs (for example, overall I can appreciate how cl-loop
>> straightens out a lot of awkward loop constructs even though its syntax
>> is not really Elisp-like).  But when a simple construct is a perfect
>> fit, it's not helping understanding.
>
> I don't see how a pcase used like a cl-case - as in the quoted example -
> is any harder to read or understand.

Quasiquotes are quasiquotes.  They are harder to read for the Lisp
reader, and they are harder to read for the human reader.

-- 
David Kastrup