From: wgreenhouse@riseup.net (W. Greenhouse)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Declaring a local dynamic variable?
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 06:24:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878uyh1n1b.fsf@motoko.kusanagi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5246751B.3020204@easy-emacs.de
Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
> Am 27.09.2013 22:18, schrieb Pascal J. Bourguignon:
> [ ... ]
>>
>> The conclusion is that in emacs lisp you have to prefix ALL the symbols!
>> Which clearly demonstrates a failure of the language.
>>
>
> Resp. of it's implementation.
>
> Why not uniquify --instead of prefixing-- under the hood?
As has already been pointed out in this thread, Emacs does have (via
cl-lib or more specifically cl-macs) a version of `declare' whose
special-variable declarations are respected by the byte compiler. So
it's a solved problem; I don't understand why Pascal and others are
NIHing it and then complaining about the deficiencies of Emacs Lisp.
The general usefulness of this functionality, however, does make me
wonder why it's still stuck in the cl namespace. It seems like a prime
candidate for promotion to subr or similar.
--
Regards,
WGG
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2013-09-20 9:52 Declaring a local dynamic variable? Joost Kremers
2013-09-20 12:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-20 14:54 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.2569.1379688787.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-20 15:10 ` Barry Margolin
2013-09-20 16:34 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.2578.1379694764.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-20 20:59 ` Barry Margolin
2013-09-21 5:49 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-09-23 16:19 ` Joost Kremers
[not found] ` <mailman.2622.1379742443.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-21 11:31 ` Barry Margolin
2013-09-21 13:32 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.2638.1379770251.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-22 3:49 ` Barry Margolin
2013-09-23 16:26 ` Joost Kremers
2013-09-23 21:17 ` Barry Margolin
2013-09-23 22:14 ` Joost Kremers
2013-09-24 0:03 ` Barry Margolin
2013-09-25 8:58 ` Joost Kremers
2013-09-22 17:11 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-23 16:17 ` Joost Kremers
2013-09-24 21:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-11-02 23:56 ` WJ
2013-11-03 1:42 ` WJ
[not found] ` <mailman.2566.1379680283.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-23 16:11 ` Joost Kremers
2013-09-24 21:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-25 5:52 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-09-25 7:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-25 8:43 ` Joost Kremers
2013-09-25 12:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-12 16:54 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.3886.1381596756.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-12 21:25 ` Kai Grossjohann
2013-10-13 8:12 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-10-13 13:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-13 17:41 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-10-13 19:56 ` Kai Großjohann
[not found] ` <mailman.2843.1380112007.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-25 15:46 ` Barry Margolin
2013-09-25 18:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-27 9:53 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-09-27 13:15 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.2982.1380275511.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-27 14:31 ` Barry Margolin
2013-09-27 18:48 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.3016.1380307597.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-27 20:18 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-27 23:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-28 6:20 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-09-28 6:24 ` W. Greenhouse [this message]
2013-09-28 6:50 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-09-28 7:21 ` W. Greenhouse
[not found] ` <mailman.2873.1380135245.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-26 0:06 ` Barry Margolin
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