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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why are there two dolist?
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:54:14 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo3a7x26o9.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01d8a50908111733t2cdb1ecajd73bd5eed828d8ee@mail.gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:33:23 +0200")

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> I do not understand your code above, but is not the conclusion that
> the cl-macs.el version does not do what it is supposed to do? What
> value does it have then? (Perhaps it can be fixed, I don't know.)

It need not work perfectly to have value.

I don't know whether CL return-from is defined to work across
function-call boundaries, but the vast majority of uses are far simpler,
and the cl.el version should work fine in those cases.

[cl.el is not anywhere close to being truly CL-compatible in general]

-Miles

-- 
Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-12  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-11 22:14 Why are there two dolist? Lennart Borgman
2009-08-11 22:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-12  8:45   ` David Kastrup
2009-08-12  8:52     ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-11 22:37 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-11 22:42   ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-11 22:51     ` Miles Bader
2009-08-11 23:04       ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-11 23:30         ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-08-11 23:34           ` Miles Bader
2009-08-11 23:41             ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-11 23:48               ` Miles Bader
2009-08-11 23:39           ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-12  0:27             ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-08-12  0:33               ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-12  0:54                 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-08-12  0:59                   ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-12  1:24                 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen

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