From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What does "lacks a prefix" mean? Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:19:15 +0200 Message-ID: <87a8v5j7oc.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> References: <1e0ad02f-ca3e-495c-bb85-61f77090d31d@googlegroups.com> <87bnfmqzn2.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1436480728 23429 80.91.229.3 (9 Jul 2015 22:25:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 22:25:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 10 00:25:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1ZDKFs-000631-Pi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:25:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42096 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZDKFs-0006jo-5N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:25:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56173) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZDKFh-0006jX-Q0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:25:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZDKFc-0003Er-Lm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:25:09 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43678) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZDKFc-0003Dq-Fd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:25:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZDKFb-0005s4-72 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:25:03 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-156.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.156]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:25:03 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-156.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:25:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-156.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bO5lMruXk77ONLWNr99dZJAItZM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105568 Archived-At: Barry Margolin writes: >> Actually I see no harm using let* all the time. > > This is a frequent subject of style arguments. > > As far as the computer is concerned, there should be > no problem with using let* all the time. But to > human readers, it makes a difference. Some of us > view the * as being a red flag, warning the reader > that something unusual is being done. We'll then > expend more mental energy looking for the > dependencies. let is the "normal" method, let* is > "special". That's exactly right! Myself I use both (let and let*) for this exact reason. Still I don't see any harm always using let*, and if let* was "let" and the other way around, I think (?) I'd always use "let". -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573