From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What does "lacks a prefix" mean? Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 20:10:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <139e2557-e8f9-4d5a-921b-0d114d2524aa@googlegroups.com> References: <1e0ad02f-ca3e-495c-bb85-61f77090d31d@googlegroups.com> <87bnfmqzn2.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <50e94679-4d4a-4440-a806-872dc05657ec@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1436498121 19066 80.91.229.3 (10 Jul 2015 03:15:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 03:15:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 10 05:15:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1ZDOmU-0004ry-GJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 05:15:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42735 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZDOmT-0002Ae-IO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 23:15:17 -0400 X-Received: by 10.129.85.77 with SMTP id j74mr25418042ywb.55.1436497821490; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 20:10:21 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.114.38 with SMTP id jd6mr11859igb.11.1436497821425; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 20:10:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!m107no1726981qgd.1!news-out.google.com!t2ni5845igk.0!nntp.google.com!i4no520008ige.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=117.195.37.34; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 117.195.37.34 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 03:10:21 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:213287 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105574 Archived-At: On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 4:00:18 AM UTC+5:30, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Rusi writes: > > > Ive sometimes wished for a let-variant that does the > > duty of both let and let* eg. > > > (let (((x 1) (y 2)) > > ((z (foo x y)))) > > body...) > > > > This kind of let would cost one paren more than the usual let. > > But could make dependencies explicit without > > overspecifying > > let* already does what let does. *** Welcome to IELM *** Type (describe-mode) for help. ELISP> (setq a 'a b 'b) b ELISP> (let ((a b)(b a)) (list a b)) (b a) ELISP> (let* ((a b)(b a)) (list a b)) (b b)