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From: Christopher Monsanto <ch...@monsan.to>
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Subject: bug#12512: 24.2.50;
	pcase treats quoted lists different than non-quoted lists
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Oh, I see. (pcase '(1 2 3) ...) is different than (let ((x '(1 2 3)))
(pcase x ...)). That's pretty counter intuitive. I'm guessing some
sort of optimization?

Christopher Monsanto
ch...@monsan.to  --  http://monsan.to/



On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> Anyone alive :)? If someone can acknowledge that this is indeed a bug,
>
> It's definitely a bug.
>
>> moment (due to the ubiquity of using quotation for lists, pcase is
>> more-or-less useless to me until this is fixed)
>
> I can't believe you often do (pcase 'FOO BAR), since that can always be
> trivially resolved (since you know statically what you're pcase'ing on).
>
>
>         Stefan