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From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Adding with-gensyms and once-only to subr-x
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 10:01:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877d7vr1uy.fsf@athena.silentflame.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvbkx7y3c9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

Hello,

On Mon 11 Apr 2022 at 12:48pm -04, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> Lately I have been finding myself wanting with-gensyms and once-only,
>> two classic macro-writing macros, available in core Elisp.  (There is
>> already org-with-gensyms, but it's not in the least bit Org-specific.)
>
> I think `once-only` is what we (well, I) called `macroexp-let2`.

Ah, thank you for the pointer.

(macroexp-let2* nil ((foo foo) (bar bar)) FORMS)

is quite a bit more verbose than (once-only (foo bar) FORMS), however.
So I would be inclined to keep once-only, though reimplemented in terms
of macroexp-let2*.  Does that sound reasonable?

-- 
Sean Whitton



  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-11 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-11 16:26 [PATCH] Adding with-gensyms and once-only to subr-x Sean Whitton
2022-04-11 16:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-11 17:01   ` Sean Whitton [this message]
2022-04-11 17:26     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-11 18:41       ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-11 19:11         ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-11 20:25           ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-11 21:11             ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-11 23:05               ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-11 23:15                 ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-12  0:06           ` Sean Whitton
2022-04-12  3:08             ` Stefan Monnier
2022-04-12  6:02               ` Sean Whitton

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