From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 24.3.50; Use of deprecated ((lambda ...) ...) form Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 08:15:44 -0800 Message-ID: <509D2C30.2000703@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87390ieug9.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352477771 28334 80.91.229.3 (9 Nov 2012 16:16:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 16:16:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sds@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 09 17:16:19 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TWrFj-0003NB-3Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:16:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59236 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWrFZ-00014s-Pt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:16:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45053) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWrFP-00013b-9G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:16:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWrFG-0005R2-Kk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:15:59 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:37642) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWrFG-0005Qv-Eg; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:15:50 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD984A6000D; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 08:15:49 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id AumJCRIppSVN; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 08:15:49 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.6] (pool-108-23-119-2.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.23.119.2]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6E47CA60001; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 08:15:49 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121028 Thunderbird/16.0.2 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154765 Archived-At: On 11/09/2012 07:59 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Old doesn't make it good. If you want to bind local variables, > you know where to find `let', don't you? I agree with Sam. The equivalence of 'let' to 'lambda' is a standard koan of Lisp. We shouldn't discard it so lightly.