From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Fineman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Always using let* Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:40:25 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <84wq953mpi.fsf@verizon.net> References: <87fvfukmso.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410731135 8983 80.91.229.3 (14 Sep 2014 21:45:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:45:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 14 23:45:24 2014 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 1XTHbn-0005uW-BZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 23:45:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56320 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XTHbm-0000CF-Mz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:45:22 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!news.snarked.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="326eb0740333d4e412f38023dd57150a"; logging-data="8951"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19vZpD5atU/bsdNwiIfLQcp" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iiU5RqlIZYNd3Gh4ijXBRC5x76U= sha1:06Z1AWbTvfUJwnKZUOUkWXLHjPo= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207613 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:99888 Archived-At: Cecil Westerhof writes: > Would it be OK to always use let*? I was just bitten by the fact that > with let you can not previous variables from the let statement, as is ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Word missing? > possible with setq. So I am thinking about always using let*, so I do > not have to think about it. Or are there good reasons to use let when > you do not need let*? -- --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: The way out is the way in. :||