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From: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: 28254@debbugs.gnu.org, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: bug#28254: 26.0.50; SRFI-2 and-let*
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:29:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170912142955.GA31269@holos.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lglkcdy1.fsf@drachen>

On 12/09/17 at 02:13pm, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu> writes:
> 
> > This is a patch implementing the above: if-let and when-let only take
> > single tuple, while {if,when,and}-let* lose the single tuple special
> > case.
> 
> I wonder if we should mark if-let and when-let obsolete instead.
> Because it is only a special case of the if-let* and when-let* forms
> (with only one binding), so it is absolutely redundant.  Also, I find
> the new syntax breaking with the binding-list syntax of let confusing.
> Finally, it would ease the transition for programmers: the modified
> if-let and when-let break existing code, and it's not obviously for
> programmers what's suddenly wrong.

Sounds good to me.





      reply	other threads:[~2017-09-12 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-27 20:11 bug#28254: 26.0.50; SRFI-2 and-let* Mark Oteiza
2017-09-01  2:55 ` npostavs
2017-09-02  2:10   ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-02  3:05     ` npostavs
2017-09-02  4:14       ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-02  5:25         ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-09-02 13:36           ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-02 18:41             ` Noam Postavsky
2017-09-03 17:48               ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-09-03 22:39                 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-04  0:48                   ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-04 14:12                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-09-05  3:47                   ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-05 15:04                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-09-06 12:12                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-09-06 13:06                       ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-06 19:04                         ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-09-04  1:13               ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-05  3:55                 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-09  0:33                   ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-12 12:39                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-09-12 13:09                       ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-12 18:44                         ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-09-12 20:21                           ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-13 10:16                             ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-09-13 11:48                               ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-13 16:46                                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-09-13 16:49                                   ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-13 17:05                                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-09-13 17:28                                       ` Mark Oteiza
2017-09-13 17:49                                         ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-09-12 12:13                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-09-12 14:29                     ` Mark Oteiza [this message]

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