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: if-let and when-let: parallel or sequential Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 11:22:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407684198 25121 80.91.229.3 (10 Aug 2014 15:23:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:23:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Mastro Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 10 17:23:11 2014 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 1XGUxi-0000Dn-KZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:23:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60054 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XGUxi-0002tq-48 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 11:23:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49260) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XGUxY-0002tR-II for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 11:23:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XGUxR-0003l6-39 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 11:23:00 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:63313) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XGUxQ-0003l1-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 11:22:53 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArUGAIDvNVPAqyKr/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsA9gRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIBAjSGReOegeEOASrA4NMIQ X-IPAS-Result: ArUGAIDvNVPAqyKr/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsA9gRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIBAjSGReOegeEOASrA4NMIQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,753,1389762000"; d="scan'208";a="84191984" Original-Received: from 192-171-34-171.cpe.pppoe.ca (HELO pastel.home) ([192.171.34.171]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 10 Aug 2014 11:22:52 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D0955605FD; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 11:22:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (John Mastro's message of "Sat, 9 Aug 2014 19:44:50 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (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:173541 Archived-At: > I noticed that the new `if-let' and `when-let' in trunk's subr-x create > their bindings sequentially (like `let*' rather than `let'). Would there > be any interest in renaming these to `if-let*' and `when-let*', and > adding parallel-binding versions under the current names? I have a hard time imagining a situation where the "parallel" version would be useful. Stefan