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| author | Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> | 2018-03-31 00:40:43 -0400 |
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| committer | Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> | 2018-03-31 00:50:37 -0400 |
| commit | e50196e8a96216f1fd69f9257cddd8d76ad2ac78 (patch) | |
| tree | 0cc120b6a633ce87db822016922c1df4976f2f65 /doc/lispref/control.texi | |
| parent | 8a2466ff7240136c32b1cc21143225935d462cc6 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-e50196e8a96216f1fd69f9257cddd8d76ad2ac78.tar.gz | |
Document return value of pcase (Bug#30425)
* doc/lispref/control.texi (Pattern matching case statement):
* lisp/emacs-lisp/pcase.el (pcase): State that pcase returns nil if no
patterns match.
(pcase-exhaustive): State that an error is signaled if no patterns
match.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/lispref/control.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/control.texi | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/control.texi b/doc/lispref/control.texi index f85ee947790..adec632da6a 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/control.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/control.texi @@ -317,7 +317,8 @@ list of the form @code{(@var{pattern} @var{body-forms}@dots{})}. @var{pattern} of each clause, in textual order. If the value matches, the clause succeeds; @code{pcase} then evaluates its @var{body-forms}, and returns the value of the last of @var{body-forms}. Any remaining -@var{clauses} are ignored. +@var{clauses} are ignored. If no clauses match, then the @code{pcase} +form evaluates to @code{nil}. The @var{pattern} part of a clause can be of one of two types: @dfn{QPattern}, a pattern quoted with a backquote; or a |