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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: master 8f0f851: * lisp/autoarg.el: Use lexical binding.
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 18:23:32 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb31bea7-166c-4551-8d31-7991db8e5aa9@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mu6vnlfq.fsf@web.de>

> Some people argued that RESULT is not so useful, and it's position in
> the syntax is strange, and seems nobody really found this totally
> wrong.
> 
> BTW, in the discussion in said bug report we now found the idea to
> always warn about using the RESULT argument in subr.el's dotimes (in
> order to remove it later) and fix the warning in cl-dotimes.

Perhaps the difference in usefulness has to
do with other differences between dotimes
and cl-dotimes.  Perhaps the RETURN arg is
more useful in combination with go tags,
for instance.  Dunno.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-29  1:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20200419004503.26161.91884@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20200419004504.C65772049B@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2020-04-19  6:18   ` master 8f0f851: * lisp/autoarg.el: Use lexical binding Juanma Barranquero
2020-04-20  5:10     ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-20  5:34       ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-20 11:06         ` Noam Postavsky
2020-04-20 13:52       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-20 14:55         ` Drew Adams
2020-04-20 16:32           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-28  2:14             ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-28  2:59               ` Strange compiler warning in `dotimes' (was: master 8f0f851: * lisp/autoarg.el: Use lexical binding.) Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-28 15:32               ` master 8f0f851: * lisp/autoarg.el: Use lexical binding Drew Adams
2020-04-29  0:53                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-29  0:59                   ` Drew Adams
2020-04-29  1:13                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-29  1:23                       ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-04-29  2:31                 ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-04-29  3:58                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-29  4:21                     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-29 18:33                     ` Vladimir Sedach
2020-04-29  4:02                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-29 15:05                   ` Noam Postavsky
2020-04-30  2:26                   ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-16  3:21                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-04-29  3:53                 ` Stefan Monnier

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