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: The purpose of makunbound Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:48:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424238572 20242 80.91.229.3 (18 Feb 2015 05:49:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 05:49:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kelly Dean Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 18 06:49:23 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YNxVj-0005W6-3I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 06:49:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48942 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YNxVi-0006TL-Ka for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:49:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51340) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YNxVb-0006SU-Rl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:49:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YNxVU-00032q-Cw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:49:15 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:23336) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YNxVU-00032i-93; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:49:08 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AroTAPOG1lTO+LI//2dsb2JhbABbgwaDX4VTwGUEAgKBDUQBAQEBAQF8hA0BBAFWIxALNBIUGA0kiDgIziMBAQEBBgEBAQEej3gHhCoFiiefS4FFIoQMIIJzAQEB X-IPAS-Result: AroTAPOG1lTO+LI//2dsb2JhbABbgwaDX4VTwGUEAgKBDUQBAQEBAQF8hA0BBAFWIxALNBIUGA0kiDgIziMBAQEBBgEBAQEej3gHhCoFiiefS4FFIoQMIIJzAQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.09,536,1418101200"; d="scan'208";a="110786684" Original-Received: from 206-248-178-63.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.178.63]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 18 Feb 2015 00:49:07 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 474F334C9; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:48:50 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Kelly Dean's message of "Wed, 18 Feb 2015 03:19:27 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183232 Archived-At: >> The word "unbound" is being used in an ambiguous fashion, but once you >> see past that, there is nothing strange about what's really going on. > What's the use case of doing makunbound on a dynamically let-bound variable? What's the use case for disallowing it? Stefan