From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Lambda in macrolet becomes a closure? (another breaking change in emacs:)) Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:13:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lgyid2q2.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1474647906 4152 195.159.176.226 (23 Sep 2016 16:25:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 16:25:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 23 18:25:02 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bnTHR-0007zG-Uv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 18:24:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48242 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bnTHR-0005oF-Dd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:24:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58518) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bnT7B-0006Fj-GW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:14:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bnT77-00050R-7N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:14:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=58353 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bnT77-0004vY-0Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:14:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bnT6k-000786-3d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 18:13:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:1vp+IPRPMFGrqK4wsLeS4kMigm4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:207737 Archived-At: > Shouldn't the docstring of `function': > | Like `quote', but preferred for objects which are functions [...] > then better speak of (function) expressions instead of `objects'? Oh yes. This is a relic of the pre-lexical scoping days where there was no difference between a function expression and its value. Stefan