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From: Michael Heerdegen via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
Cc: 73853@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#73853: 31.0.50; and-let* is useless
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:57:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878quh6dg7.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r08akk75.fsf@gmail.com> (Augusto Stoffel's message of "Mon, 21 Oct 2024 09:07:42 +0200")

Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:

> I always type `if-let' because it looks cleaner and saves one indentation
> column (which are purely cosmetic reasons), but also I think it would be
> weird to have a something* when there's no accompanying something.

Good point, we should decide which names to use.  Personally i prefer
the names ending with star, because bindings are not parallel as in
`let'.  But we also already spoke about this.  Dunno which names are
more popular, it's a matter of taste.


Michael.





  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-21  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-17 16:27 bug#73853: 31.0.50; and-let* is useless Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-17 16:40 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-18  2:11 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-18 23:42   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-19  3:50     ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-21  7:07     ` Augusto Stoffel
2024-10-21  8:57       ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-10-21 12:09         ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-19  3:38   ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-20 12:24     ` Stefan Kangas
2024-10-22 14:47       ` bug#73853: 31.0.50; Should and-let* become a synonym for when-let*? Sean Whitton
2024-10-22 15:24         ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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