From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: nicolas@petton.fr, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A generalization of `thunk-let' (was: `thunk-let'?)
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2017 16:59:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1eNn9v-0003e1-Lt@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r2s5ez0t.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Fri, 08 Dec 2017 21:38:10 +0100)
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> Say, you write a user interface, and it includes some toggle commands.
> When one of these toggle commands is called, the code will probably need
> to recompute some variables to adopt their bindings to the new set of
> options.
Why design this to work on let bindings
rather than on top-level buffer-local bindings?
Wouldn't the latter be most convenient for this sort of thing?
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Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-08 20:12 `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-10-08 22:25 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-10-09 3:10 ` `thunk-let'? Stefan Monnier
2017-10-09 11:40 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-10-09 14:07 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-10-09 14:27 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-10-09 15:38 ` [SUSPECTED SPAM] `thunk-let'? Stefan Monnier
2017-11-08 17:22 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-08 18:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-11-09 15:14 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-09 18:39 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-09 18:48 ` `thunk-let'? Stefan Monnier
2017-11-22 2:50 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-22 3:43 ` `thunk-let'? Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-22 16:16 ` `thunk-let'? Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-22 19:25 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-22 20:00 ` `thunk-let'? Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-23 2:59 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-23 4:15 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-23 16:34 ` `thunk-let'? Pip Cet
2017-11-23 23:41 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-24 8:37 ` `thunk-let'? Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-24 8:51 ` `thunk-let'? Stefan Monnier
2017-11-24 9:16 ` `thunk-let'? Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-24 13:33 ` `thunk-let'? Stefan Monnier
2017-11-27 5:21 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-27 13:34 ` `thunk-let'? Stefan Monnier
2017-11-27 15:44 ` `thunk-let'? Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-30 15:19 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-24 8:36 ` `thunk-let'? Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-30 15:17 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-30 16:06 ` `thunk-let'? Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-01 8:02 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-23 16:04 ` `thunk-let'? Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-22 17:44 ` `thunk-let'? Gemini Lasswell
2017-11-22 18:04 ` `thunk-let'? Noam Postavsky
2017-11-22 18:31 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-22 18:29 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-22 19:54 ` `thunk-let'? Stefan Monnier
2017-11-22 22:47 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-10 10:01 ` [SUSPECTED SPAM] `thunk-let'? Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-08 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-08 22:22 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-08 23:06 ` `thunk-let'? Drew Adams
2017-11-09 17:20 ` `thunk-let'? Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-09 17:39 ` `thunk-let'? Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-11-09 18:06 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-09 21:05 ` `thunk-let'? Drew Adams
2017-11-09 23:07 ` Sandbox subr-x? (was: `thunk-let'?) Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-09 23:54 ` Drew Adams
2017-11-10 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-09 21:48 ` `thunk-let'? Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-11-09 22:43 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-10 7:48 ` `thunk-let'? Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-09 18:14 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-09 20:26 ` `thunk-let'? Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-09 23:13 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-10 7:58 ` `thunk-let'? Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-11 15:20 ` `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-11 15:40 ` `thunk-let'? Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-10 10:10 ` `thunk-let'? Nicolas Petton
2017-11-09 14:34 ` [SUSPECTED SPAM] `thunk-let'? Michael Heerdegen
2017-11-09 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-09 15:19 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-10-09 8:00 ` `thunk-let'? Nicolas Petton
2017-12-08 20:38 ` A generalization of `thunk-let' (was: `thunk-let'?) Michael Heerdegen
2017-12-08 21:16 ` A generalization of `thunk-let' Stefan Monnier
2017-12-09 10:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-12-10 4:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-10 5:34 ` John Wiegley
2017-12-12 14:41 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-12-13 13:52 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-12-13 14:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-12-13 14:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-01-12 20:03 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-12-09 21:59 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2017-12-10 17:03 ` Michael Heerdegen
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