From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: nested backquotes Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 16:25:17 -0400 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <871x814pgr.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: <1116431406.143574.87990@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87u0kx53fn.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116621851 25137 80.91.229.2 (20 May 2005 20:44:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 20:44:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 20 22:44:10 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DZEKC-0003d1-GM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 May 2005 22:42:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DZEN6-0006AH-TD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 May 2005 16:45:28 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsflash.concordia.ca!News.Dal.Ca!ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hK1gi5lB7u+1wd4Jmkod068fJbc= Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.49.81.51 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1116620719 70.49.81.51 (Fri, 20 May 2005 16:25:19 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 16:25:19 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:131408 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:26867 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26867 > With the "capture" version, you can also do > (tla--lambda-with-capture (x y z) > (... foo ... (capture foo) ... (capture (current-buffer)))) Could you explain what this does? > which I find more readable. (I've started to look at the lexical-let > option too) The advantage of lexical-let is that it uses a completely standard concept (lexical scoping and closures) which exists in many other languages (where their `let' behaves pretty much like Emacs's lexical-let). Stefan