From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (loop with (VAR1 VAR2) ...) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 21:28:01 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395019813 10784 80.91.229.3 (17 Mar 2014 01:30:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 01:30:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 17 02:30:23 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 1WPMNg-0005Ew-LI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2014 02:30:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55162 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WPMNg-0005ib-5j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Mar 2014 21:30:20 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="8054"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18gsLnu6dUnlnU6Ul2nszzi" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fe701NaPMOa3zNOQyqjX0OptY04= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:204276 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:96546 Archived-At: In article , Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > Is the construct in the subject valid as an alternate form of: > > (loop with VAR1 > with VAR2 > ...) > > ? It seems to work fine, but (info "(cl) Other Clauses") > doesn't mention it, so i wonder if i am planting a latent bug. Does it mention "destructuring"? Any place where a single variable is allowed, you can have a list of variables, and it will assign them from the list of values. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***