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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: let-bind a varlist only known at run time
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 13:44:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkQawr7TTQy3W6MmHUf94RazJZtvNeJtpeT+GRDdPMHKhA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28921.59572.342625.22836@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org> schrieb am So., 4. Juni 2017 um 23:00 Uhr:

> Normally the varlist for the special let form is hardcoded.  Is it
> possible to specify the varlist only at runtime?
>
> The usage scenario I have in mind is that a user variable foo-alist
> may hold an alist that becomes the varlist for the let-binding.  So
> it's not known at compile time which bindings a user might want to
> specify in foo-alist.  Also, it might be hard to predict an
> exhaustive list of "candidate variables" a user might want to put into
> foo-alist (and certainly such a list would be hard to maintain).
>

Have you checked `let-alist'? Maybe it already does what you want.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-05 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-04 20:43 let-bind a varlist only known at run time Roland Winkler
2017-06-05  2:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-06-05  3:08   ` Roland Winkler
2017-07-12 21:59     ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-07-12 23:09       ` Roland Winkler
2017-06-05 13:44 ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2017-06-05 15:07   ` Roland Winkler

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