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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: What does "lacks a prefix" mean?
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 17:33:30 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <60644083-db64-4b56-9f43-e2b461138d83@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<barmar-500871.19271109072015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>>

> > And non-parallelizable theoretically :)
> 
> Regular let isn't parallelizable. It specifies that the value
> expressions are evaluated in order.
> 
> The only difference between the two is the environment within which
> later expressions are evaluated.

FWIW, Common Lisp specifies that "let performs the bindings
in parallel and let* does them sequentially."

That is theoretical, just a restatement that `let' bindings
are independent.  But it means that yes, they *could* be
evaluated in parallel (because they are independent).



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-10  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-08 16:32 What does "lacks a prefix" mean? BobD
2015-07-08 16:45 ` Barry Margolin
2015-07-08 16:59 ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-07-08 17:10 ` Vaidheeswaran C
2015-07-08 18:17 ` BobD
2015-07-08 18:21   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-08 18:45     ` BobD
2015-07-08 23:24       ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-09 15:23         ` Filipp Gunbin
2015-07-09 22:32           ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-10 17:04             ` Stefan Monnier
2015-07-11 22:42               ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]               ` <mailman.6748.1436654668.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-11 23:58                 ` Barry Margolin
2015-07-13 12:26               ` Filipp Gunbin
     [not found]             ` <mailman.6685.1436547891.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-10 18:27               ` Barry Margolin
     [not found]         ` <mailman.6612.1436455429.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-09 23:27           ` Barry Margolin
     [not found]             ` <mailman.6643.1436488423.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-10  0:49               ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-10  5:04                 ` Drew Adams
2015-07-10 14:42               ` Barry Margolin
     [not found]               ` <<barmar-2BC802.10421910072015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>
2015-07-10 14:53                 ` Drew Adams
     [not found]           ` <<barmar-500871.19271109072015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>
2015-07-10  0:33             ` Drew Adams [this message]
     [not found]       ` <mailman.6590.1436397914.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-09 14:01         ` Barry Margolin
2015-07-09 14:10           ` Rusi
2015-07-09 22:27             ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]             ` <mailman.6639.1436481016.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-10  3:10               ` Rusi
2015-07-10 16:00                 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-09 22:19           ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]         ` <<barmar-F23189.10014209072015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>
2015-07-09 15:33           ` Drew Adams
2015-07-12  1:47             ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-12 16:59               ` Drew Adams
2015-07-13  0:46                 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-13  7:26                   ` Yuri Khan
2015-07-13 23:47                     ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-14  6:23                       ` Yuri Khan
2015-07-14 21:58                         ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-19  0:59                         ` Robert Thorpe
2015-07-28  0:24                           ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-30  1:40                             ` Robert Thorpe
     [not found]                             ` <mailman.7638.1438220428.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-30  2:49                               ` Rusi
2015-07-30  2:53                                 ` Rusi

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