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: RFC: String interpolation Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:05:48 -0500 Message-ID: References: <51825111-ace4-f750-4077-026a3b648d27@gmail.com> <8737hwnc52.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8c117f5c-209a-97d8-79ce-a78f707f0545@gmail.com> <76c9c475-0180-aa49-3d4a-006d4e3f943c@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481564934 25564 195.159.176.226 (12 Dec 2016 17:48:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 17:48:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 12 18:48:51 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 1cGUiX-0005yX-A1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 18:48:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60154 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGUib-00052W-GW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:48:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60937) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGU31-00057T-3W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:05:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGU2w-0000Ln-6V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:05:55 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:1414) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGU2w-0000LE-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:05:50 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0BuEQAu3EVY/2J8oWxdGgEBAQECAQEBAQgBAQEBgzgBAQEBAR+EW4VUhHiXCiYBlFaCCIYcBAICghFAFAECAQEBAQEBAWIohGkBBAFWIxALNBIUGA0kiHoIrRSLRAEBAQcCJYsZiikFj3yKapJzAYgmhjqQToFBHzd4Ew6FcyCJLQEBAQ X-IPAS-Result: A0BuEQAu3EVY/2J8oWxdGgEBAQECAQEBAQgBAQEBgzgBAQEBAR+EW4VUhHiXCiYBlFaCCIYcBAICghFAFAECAQEBAQEBAWIohGkBBAFWIxALNBIUGA0kiHoIrRSLRAEBAQcCJYsZiikFj3yKapJzAYgmhjqQToFBHzd4Ew6FcyCJLQEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.33,749,1477972800"; d="scan'208";a="282395855" Original-Received: from 108-161-124-98.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([108.161.124.98]) by smtp.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 12 Dec 2016 12:05:50 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 91B3F64F83; Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:05:48 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:26:04 +0100") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:210358 Archived-At: >> Then you should fix your programmers. > Or we can, as we have the opportunity to here, fix the language. I really don't have a strong preference about the issue at hand, to tell you the truth. But I don't think we should shy away from relying on `let` just on the premise that Elisp programmers will use `setq` instead. Doing that will simply make it more likely that those programmers won't learn to use `let`. Stefan