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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] New convenience macros
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:47:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd4xeb9c5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <microsoft-free.874piq4j3h.fsf@youngs.au.com> (Steve Youngs's message of "Thu\, 23 Aug 2007 20\:54\:10 +1000")

>   (if (and (featurep 'simple) (featurep 'xemacs)) a b)
> warns about free variables for both `a' and `b'.  So I think having the

That's a valid criticism, but I fail to see how your macros would fare any
better on the above kind of code.  I.e. what code would you write instead of
the above, using your macros?


        Stefan


PS: Of course while Johan's comment that the compiler could do better is
true, the fact is that it currently doesn't and that noone has volunteered
to improve it in this respect.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-23 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-18 14:30 [PATCH] New convenience macros Steve Youngs
2007-08-19 15:52 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-20  2:06   ` Steve Youngs
2007-08-20 10:58     ` Kim F. Storm
2007-08-20 18:30     ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-23 10:54       ` Steve Youngs
2007-08-23 14:12         ` Johan Bockgård
2007-08-23 14:47         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-08-23 18:24           ` Steve Youngs
2007-08-23 19:12             ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-26 14:52               ` Steve Youngs
2007-08-26 22:47                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-27  3:20                   ` Steve Youngs
2007-08-20  4:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-23 11:13   ` Steve Youngs
2007-08-23 15:11     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-08-23 18:24       ` Steve Youngs

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