From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix (letrec ((ignore))) Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:47:49 +0100 Message-ID: <878u4w92q2.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <20151211161116.GA8923@apertron.net> <20151213121315.GA2680@acm.fritz.box> <20151214202422.GA3687@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450126097 11229 80.91.229.3 (14 Dec 2015 20:48:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 20:48:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Artur Malabarba , Zack Piper , Emacs developers , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Aur=E9lien?= Aptel , Kaushal Modi To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 14 21:48:04 2015 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 1a8a2M-00015U-5x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:48:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33842 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8a2L-0007dT-KO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:48:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56260) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8a2H-0007d7-7Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:47:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8a2G-0004ZT-Dl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:47:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38556) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8a2A-0004Vt-UD; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:47:50 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52375 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a8a2A-0001w4-4m; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:47:50 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AB2BBDFF79; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 21:47:49 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (John Wiegley's message of "Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:25:09 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:196267 Archived-At: John Wiegley writes: >>>>>> Alan Mackenzie 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'd not mind getting it on the way. -- David Kastrup