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27.0; doc of `pcase'

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Message #23 received at 31311 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 31311 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31311: 27.0; doc of `pcase'
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 20:38:01 +0200

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> Perhaps you can at least remove the incomprehensible and
> seemingly unrelated text (I cited) that appears at the end
> of the doc string, as a start.

This is not unrelated: These are the docs for additional pcase patterns
defined elsewhere: pcase is extensible, and the pattern listing part in
the docstring is generated dynamically.  As a result of that conception
it may not read very fluently as a whole, but it's definitely nothing we
want to remove.

We clearly have some deficiencies, but the situation IMHO really is not
as horrible as Eli's sarcasm suggests.


Michael.

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