Re: Instead of pcase

[Richard Stallman]

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  > certain structure, and then in the matcher, to deconstruct the structure 
  > and create a set of variable bindings.

I think I posted the translations I came up with.  But I can't
recall after this long whether there was any additional repetition.

  > This repetition both adds verbosity and increases the chance to make a 
  > mistake in one of the two places.

If there was any additional repetition, it was a few tokens -- nothing
significant.  The complexity of pcase's terse domain specific language
is a significant obstacle.

  > This repetition both adds verbosity and increases the chance to make a 
  > mistake in one of the two places. But once you eliminate it, I believe 
  > the result has to look like a more verbose pcase.

My current version of cond* has only a tiny fraction of the complexity
of pcase.

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