From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: "Artur Malabarba" <arturmalabarba@gmail.com>,
"Zack Piper" <zack@apertron.net>,
"Kaushal Modi" <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>,
"Aurélien Aptel" <aurelien.aptel@gmail.com>,
"Emacs developers" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix (letrec ((ignore)))
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:14:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151215141445.GB5018@acm.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878u4w92q2.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
Hello, David.
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 09:47:49PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:
> >>>>>> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> >> I should have checked before writing my last contribution, but (let ((foo)
> >> ...) ...) is actually documented as permissible in the Elisp manual.
> >> That weakens considerably the case for making it invalid.
> > Perhaps this is a bug both in the code and the manual? What say others?
> It's awful as far as I'm concerned. But being documented and available
> for a long time, deprecating it is a slow process, starting with
> undocumenting it and giving byte compiler warnings.
I've just tried putting a diagnostic into the compiler. A make
bootstrap turned up 225 occurences of ((foo)) style bindings.
As you say, getting rid of them will be a slow process. :-(
> I'd not mind getting it on the way.
> --
> David Kastrup
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-15 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-11 16:11 [PATCH] Fix (letrec ((ignore))) Zack Piper
2015-12-11 20:08 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-12-12 23:10 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-13 4:08 ` Kyle Meyer
2015-12-13 12:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-12-13 17:41 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-13 22:19 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-12-13 23:05 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-14 18:23 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-14 20:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-12-14 20:25 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-14 20:47 ` David Kastrup
2015-12-14 21:55 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-15 14:14 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
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