[e-lang] Expanding guarded ignore pattern?

[Mark S. Miller]

Kevin Reid wrote:
> I dislike the idea of getting rid of IgnorePattern as a kernel node.
> 
> While these reasons apply to guarded-ignore as well, I argue for the  
> moment that it is a tradeoff and guarded-ignore is a much rarer case:
> 
>    -- __getAllegedType
> 
>    -- anonymous objects couldn't get numbered fqns easily
> 
>    -- aesthetics of expansions, and readability for manual inspection  
> (having to check whether all these new variables are used anywhere)


Ok, these are good reasons for keeping the ignore pattern. For consistency, I 
still think we should then keep guarded-ignore as well.

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     --MarkM