From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: e and pi Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:13:32 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8739t9xpt2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284761636 23734 80.91.229.12 (17 Sep 2010 22:13:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:13:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Helmut Eller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 00:13:54 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwjBm-0005tj-TI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:13:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55829 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OwjBm-0006Lp-2I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:13:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37459 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OwjBf-0006Lk-Ny for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:13:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwjBe-0007ph-KU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:13:43 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:34747) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwjBe-0007pX-EC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:13:42 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (vpn-132-204-232-179.acd.umontreal.ca [132.204.232.179]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o8HMDb47013667; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:13:37 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 591A866289; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:13:32 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Helmut Eller's message of "Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:56:04 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3625=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:130367 Archived-At: >> Having defconst not introduce special variables would be non-ideal >> (in my opinion), since defconst does do that in Common Lisp. > In CL it's called DEFCONSTANT and constants are not special. Using a > constant in SETQ, LET, or LAMBDA is not allowed (it's an error in most > implementations, just like setq on t is an error in Elisp). In Elisp it's not (yet) an error, but the byte-compiler will complain. Stefan "don't worry about the =AByet=BB, it's likely to stay that way for another decade"