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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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Subject: Re: Always using let*
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> You mean "let, and not let*?" Because I use let all the
> time and I don't think that is uncommon.

No, I don't think I made a typo: you could remove `let' from Elisp and
it would be pretty easy to rewrite all the code to use let* instead.
In 99% of the cases it's just a matter of adding a *.


        Stefan