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


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: The poor state of documentation of pcase like things.
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:52:18 +0200

> From: Michael Heerdegen <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 03:34:39 +0100
> 
> After all, despite of the tone on both sides, I think we came to
> some conclusions:
> 
>   - The pcase docs must be updated, esp. wrt quoting/ backquote, and
>   missing stuff (e.g. first matching branches' body is executed,
>   remaining branches are ignored).
> 
>   - We should not use it in cases where a different thing (esp. cl-case)
>   exactly fits.  "Promoters" should use it sparse in contributions and
>   only in cases where it improves readability or makes the case
>   distinction clearer (given the reader read the documentation).  Others
>   should accept that some people find it handy and will use it in such
>   cases in their contributions.
> 
>   - Occurrences in the sources must be revised.

100% agreement.

Hope to see the documentation patches some time soon.

Thanks.



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