Re: Instead of pcase

[Richard Stallman]

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  > The example was cited as a place where pcase's use of special syntax lead
  > to confusion, but this the example doesn't use any special pcase syntax.
  > This doesn't remove the problem, but if it's correct, then it suggests that
  > the problem is perhaps more accurately described as "pcase makes some
  > experienced Lisp programmers so unsure about special syntax that they worry
  > it might be present where it is not".

I think you are right.  That is a clearer analysis of what happened to me,
and perhaps to Eli as well.

I don't think it affects the overall conclusions about pcase and its
syntax.  To some experienced Emacs Lisp hackers, they are confusing,
and that increases the effective complexity that they add to the Emacs
Lisp language.

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