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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.

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-08  4:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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