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From: Gemini Lasswell <gazally@runbox.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 31052@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31052: 26.0.91; Improve documentation of inline-letevals
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2018 13:29:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9iw13ks.fsf@runbox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834lkq2d1w.fsf@gnu.org>


Eli Zaretskii writes:

>   When an element of @var{bindings} is just a symbol @var{var}, the
>   result of evaluating @var{var} is re-bound to @var{var}.
>
> Is this what caused you to say it "does a completely different thing
> to symbols in the binding list"?  Or did I misunderstand?
>

What caused me to say it does a completely different thing is that,
for example, if VAR is bound to 3 in an outside scope, inside:

(let (var) ...)

it will be bound to nil.  But inside

(inline-letevals (var) ...)

it will be bound to 3.  And if VAR is unbound in the outside scope,
let will bind it to nil and inline-letevals will signal an error.

It's occurred to me while writing this that

(inline-letevals (var) ...)

behaves much like

(let ((var (eval var))) ...)

although I'm not sure how to turn that into a concise explanation for
the documentation.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-06 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-04  0:33 bug#31052: 26.0.91; Improve documentation of inline-letevals Gemini Lasswell
2018-04-04  6:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-04 13:18   ` Andy Moreton
2018-04-04 14:06     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-05  1:12       ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-04 17:10   ` Gemini Lasswell
2018-04-05  9:54     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-06 20:29       ` Gemini Lasswell [this message]
2020-08-22 15:59       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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