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authorThien-Thi Nguyen2018-05-26 09:44:10 +0200
committerThien-Thi Nguyen2018-05-27 17:15:19 +0200
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Mention pcase as a fifth conditional formfix/bug-31311-pcase-doc-squash
* doc/lispref/control.texi (Conditionals): ...here, in first para, w/ xref to "Pattern-Matching Conditional".
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@@ -148,9 +148,11 @@ following @var{forms}, in textual order, returning the result of
148@cindex conditional evaluation 148@cindex conditional evaluation
149 149
150 Conditional control structures choose among alternatives. Emacs Lisp 150 Conditional control structures choose among alternatives. Emacs Lisp
151has four conditional forms: @code{if}, which is much the same as in 151has five conditional forms: @code{if}, which is much the same as in
152other languages; @code{when} and @code{unless}, which are variants of 152other languages; @code{when} and @code{unless}, which are variants of
153@code{if}; and @code{cond}, which is a generalized case statement. 153@code{if}; @code{cond}, which is a generalized case statement;
154and @code{pcase}, which is a generalization of @code{cond}
155(@pxref{Pattern-Matching Conditional}).
154 156
155@defspec if condition then-form else-forms@dots{} 157@defspec if condition then-form else-forms@dots{}
156@code{if} chooses between the @var{then-form} and the @var{else-forms} 158@code{if} chooses between the @var{then-form} and the @var{else-forms}