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


From: Michael Heerdegen
Subject: Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things.
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 03:08:48 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> > 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.

I already said it multiple times, and I will say it again, every time
this complaint is formulated: This is outdated syntax, you don't have to
use backquote to quote symbols, only when you really want to do
list destructuring.


Michael.




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