From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RFC: `macro-eval' Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:47:34 +0200 Message-ID: <858xl5s5wp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <43976.128.165.123.18.1156957903.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157010516 18474 80.91.229.2 (31 Aug 2006 07:48:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:48:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 31 09:48:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIhHp-00059o-Tj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:48:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIhHp-0002jA-DA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:48:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GIhHb-0002is-Hy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:48:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GIhHZ-0002hH-Tf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:48:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIhHZ-0002gi-6r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:48:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GIhR8-0003ct-DB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:58:06 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GIhHX-0000Vx-Mc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:48:11 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 0718B1C4D3A4; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:47:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:33:34 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:59148 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > In many other Lisp implementations the compiler would get rid of > such [uninterned] variables, so the recommended technique costs > nothing. But the Emacs Lisp byte compiler can't do that, because > Emacs bytecode has no anonymous stack slots. Just for curiosity: would that be different with the lexical-let branch? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum