From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Sainty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: humble proposal: New special form progn-1 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 02:30:53 +1200 Message-ID: <5798C59D.8000308@orcon.net.nz> References: <3d003b0a-6d60-1081-5a6f-6324add22e79@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469630347 26816 80.91.229.3 (27 Jul 2016 14:39:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 14:39:07 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 27 16:39:00 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1bSPz9-00061g-P0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 16:38:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46830 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bSPz8-0000c7-Vc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 10:38:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53227) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bSPrg-00026x-IZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 10:31:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bSPra-00060V-2Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 10:31:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [219.88.242.62] (port=49577 helo=mail.orcon.net.nz) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bSPrZ-0005yQ-Hg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 10:31:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.20.100] ([150.107.172.43]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.orcon.net.nz (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id u6REUsk1032195 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2016 02:30:55 +1200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 In-Reply-To: <3d003b0a-6d60-1081-5a6f-6324add22e79@gmail.com> X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0: No Bayes scoring rules defined, tokens from: outbound) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=150.107.172.43; country=NZ; region=Auckland; city=Auckland; latitude=-36.8667; longitude=174.7667; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=-36.8667,174.7667&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: base:outbound X-Canit-Stats-ID: 02RnOuSnt - ba1d4c33fc25 - 20160728 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 219.88.242.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:206182 Archived-At: Or the idea could be generalised to: (progn- offset &rest body) (prog0+ offset &rest body) I think code readability potentially suffers with any of these ideas, mind.