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Problem in pcase-let?

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Message #46 received at 70597-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa <at> gmail.com>
Cc: brubar.cs <at> gmail.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 70597-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#70597: Problem in pcase-let?
Date: Sat, 04 May 2024 14:35:43 +0300

> From: Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 13:06:58 +0200
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, brubar.cs <at> gmail.com, 70597 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> it's your call.  But please change the doc string to clarify that pcase-let does not do "symbol equality" pattern
> matching, but only structural matching.  Adding an example like the following will help.
> 
> (pcase-let ((`(foo ,x 23 ,y) '(bar 11 baz 22))) (list x y))

This is already explained in the ELisp manual, and the doc string
already says

  Each EXP should match its respective PATTERN (i.e. be of structure
  compatible to PATTERN)

So I don't think we need to do anything else here, and I'm closing
this bug.

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