From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33550: [PATCH] mention let* in if-let Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 05:44:54 +0200 Message-ID: <875zrcvux5.fsf@web.de> References: <87y39bsndt.fsf@gmail.com> <83sgzjd608.fsf@gnu.org> <877ebsw44r.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="112042"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 33550@debbugs.gnu.org, Alex Branham To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 18 05:46:14 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hGy06-000T2v-MX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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c=relaxed/simple; d=web.de; s=dbaedf251592; t=1555559096; bh=2wcKy+FMLks1nVYuocdzMBjw8Ro6rjbbaLw+2y7WWp4=; h=X-UI-Sender-Class:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To; b=i+uJLmPEtGkBON0bWjcQixa4PQF3nT2r4CoZFxRVTKeBdIDatic04X+EL4uC+Mhno rRO8RLwPgrTfGvCSeD3LYWCti8dopvOm1IZHP4f0hI1XxFx6fwWGmi4UhW8xburhtY /rmqewZpLybgQZbUqA46fweTuffDH7SlbH+q5YJ8= X-UI-Sender-Class: c548c8c5-30a9-4db5-a2e7-cb6cb037b8f9 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([92.208.95.234]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb102 [213.165.67.124]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M7srs-1gukC81bwu-00vSRr; Thu, 18 Apr 2019 05:44:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: <877ebsw44r.fsf@gmail.com> (Noam Postavsky's message of "Wed, 17 Apr 2019 20:25:56 -0400") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:xrPh5dSjHrfsRzAlupXga+E3sZ5zIKk4dgR3PF2f+pjevxufh+s CHekiOOBv1XmiiP9IBDeUvcQjfDAGuv9sNC8pNt/bfvtBgoCvCGYAXxB4mXyV2WUi0i4Rq4 UTGdwp9yGx+mSkW8VUnqVr1b6mJhj6ZPIoEpX965CI6O/Maa6p1ECjMtxAy2lTsFY9fZKez tZerEZTaurr2wc2ZFKZmg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:qYIAQiETnE8=:I2cM2w733R8fgRWvqimwS2 En/rtlkAfckQyzvybLsGpIhUo6wa+kqILgU0t3oIUmVV2KjusIysPITZ7B0PQWk0ZGdQCfwow IYiDT6/SG+9deloSLJBwW0r8Y+uoutGq02MIRUpjNm+HVaivlgyjPHEaFCMnmT3vhQXsq9cpi 9uldchjTvSeNrpCMtzLo3KZo0w5PF1uJL3B5AG4LTKoVc1gw6GEfX/enjAqHsSAHOxuGUkCCV cyrfaQ9xvrhmmscZ5fTWxbAXDmGAnxudu/YcmGKTfXwZqG76dAeOUtNbJiNkdkKSfSev/t1Ug vu2+YKu26AMjqYbl2bwwfAKa+lV7Og6RxBGxQNyi6JBmKxWiLEbWMfRBPHxpFP7TZ6JiCr9Zz bB9FC7okSmULzh5eGiH+idHmeOIk5TDY+4RuzQAVmrc0QWDuTTzaWdTXSNErDicgiWjLtkNEW r5dqE2LX2X3tUmmAdYQwxHaRMW9Ml3eSyCorCOE/1k3L6YQE5BXndLstrRVyAo+flSPmHqgxd rZ3+/mMTilX/rfZmXO4X3st3YxjUjBedjp1xZ+srYBqrq6SBFTYO6nlz6f5q4lI+ZbZmQ3p/P fvZDR4deWohIgyl/NlNfr+ntbXBA5FmSCzw2advPM55nERysZcglDx2pbzmpoyAJYK4gl/UP0 CBDanryqRSdbpynHDIXIYLlwBmwS9/h1W9OEufLH4LEmhzHh8oQBuDMC1YKfYmPUu5l6ZXZBn ClB+uj3cgAVd0GH+RKWSsKjqKgg/XGibIEPTpfU1ocuJWsDfO/p06dplaYOELvFQqZSNKpQV X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:157793 Archived-At: Noam Postavsky writes: > I think it's a bit ambiguous, it could refer to the fact that each > VALUEFORM is evaluted sequentially. It's not entirely obvious that > previous SYMBOL bindings are available to follow VALUEFORMs, as in let* > rather than let Yes, true. > (which would be the more obvious choice for if-let as opposed to > if-let*). if-let mainly exists for backward compatibility (to support the "SPEC of the form (SYMBOL SOMETHING)" case). I don't recall why we didn't obsolete it when we added if-let*, but AFAIR the special case had been quite widely used. Anyway, I think we should not change it. Michael.