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From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
To: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Allow underscore in non-binding clauses of `if-let*` and friends
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 18:22:39 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y11ne8ls.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <868qto4lr6.fsf@fastmail.fm> (Joost Kremers's message of "Tue, 12 Nov 2024 14:36:29 +0100")

Hello,

On Tue 12 Nov 2024 at 02:36pm +01, Joost Kremers wrote:

> WDYT? Would it be a good idea to officially support this and mention it in
> the manual? (Not necessarily recommending it, but at least mention it as an
> alternative option.)

As has been pointed out it's already implicitly allowed because let*
allows it.  Given this, I suggest not changing the macro docstrings.

On the other hand, I think it would be good to add an explanation and/or
example in the manual.  Perhaps propose another patch once we've got
your other one applied, though.

-- 
Sean Whitton



      parent reply	other threads:[~2024-11-13 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-12 13:36 Allow underscore in non-binding clauses of `if-let*` and friends Joost Kremers
2024-11-12 17:55 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-11-13 11:03   ` Joost Kremers
2024-11-12 20:13 ` Jens Schmidt
2024-11-12 20:23   ` Joost Kremers
2024-11-13 10:22 ` Sean Whitton [this message]

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