On 03/07/2016 11:03 AM, Drew Adams wrote:
>> > and hard to read/manipulate.
> Manipulate, maybe.  But no more than `let*' or `cond'.

Actually, its true that it's harder to swap the first and second assignment in a multi-variable setq than a multivariable let*, don't you think?

(setq a 1 
      b 2)

vs

(let* ((a 1)
       (b 2))
  ...)

> Read?  Definitely not.  IMHO.

Agreed: I use multi-variable setq a lot in my init files; I think it reads very nicely.