From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 15172@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15172: 24.3.50; (cl) `Porting Common Lisp'
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:45:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r47e43ha.fsf@building.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6c879d35-9ac5-4fe4-8376-b8d920137f5a@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:25:58 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> This part is unclear/misleading:
>
> "In Common Lisp, function arguments and `let' bindings apply
> only to references physically within their bodies
> (or within macro expansions in their bodies).
>
> It is unclear what "function arguments" refers to here. Does it mean
> the formal parameters of a function or its actual arguments? Or does
> it mean arguments whose values are functions?
I think that's kinda unlikely. Introducing terminology like "formal
parameters" here (that few are likely to understand) would just make
this even worse. Closing.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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2013-08-23 20:25 bug#15172: 24.3.50; (cl) `Porting Common Lisp' Drew Adams
2014-02-08 4:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2014-02-09 23:36 ` Drew Adams
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