From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden@speakeasy.net>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: critique: my-first-function
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 21:43:57 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <690bad58-aff2-42c7-8081-490f810390b2@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160614214734.128b4c55eaf6b66a7b3ef537@speakeasy.net>
> Is the "*" a convention of some kind that I should be aware of?
Sort of. Some functions that are similar to other functions use
the same base name as the latter, but with a `*' suffix. This is
more prominent in some lisps.
For example, Common Lisp has `do' and `do*'. `do*' is to `do' as
`let*' is to `let': the bindings of the `*' versions are evaluated
sequentially.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-15 4:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-12 22:39 critique: my-first-function James K. Lowden
2016-06-13 1:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-06-13 1:08 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.1403.1465780144.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-15 1:47 ` James K. Lowden
2016-06-15 4:43 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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