From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CL function's docstrings Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:04:29 -0400 Message-ID: <87y8ab74iq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116508706 6510 80.91.229.2 (19 May 2005 13:18:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 13:18:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 19 15:18:07 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYkss-00014g-3V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 15:16:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYkvS-0001V3-CW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 09:18:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYkqp-0008U7-6e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 09:14:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYkqn-0008Sz-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 09:14:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYkqm-0008E0-Ss for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 09:14:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.93] (helo=tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DYkpl-0006yf-5g; Thu, 19 May 2005 09:13:05 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([70.49.81.51]) by tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050519130430.KQZF16985.tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Thu, 19 May 2005 09:04:30 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 497C3D7322; Thu, 19 May 2005 09:04:29 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 18 May 2005 18:45:34 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37350 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37350 > We never told users it was ok to use these as free variables, so we > don't have to worry about that issue. However, when changing the arg > names of a function in CL that calls other functions in CL, it would > be good to verify that the called functions don't use them as > free variables. > (It would be unclean to use them that way without defvar'ing them.) Defvaring is not necessary in cases such as: (let ((nondefvarred-variable 0)) (mapcar* (lambda (x) (incf nondefvarred-variable)) somelist)) -- Stefan