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: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 01:24:09 +0200 Message-ID: <87io9ui67a.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 1436397933 22297 80.91.229.3 (8 Jul 2015 23:25:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 23:25:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 09 01:25:25 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 1ZCyiR-0001wr-RG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 01:25:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37181 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCyiQ-00066W-V9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:25:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35276) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCyiF-00066O-W8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCyiB-0001zV-Hx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:25:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56227) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCyiB-0001yR-AB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:25:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZCyi9-0001kh-HS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 01:25:05 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-135.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.135]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 01:25:05 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-135.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 01:25:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-135.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ch0EjBXMax+hbAFC2RerMSlc8bc= 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:105552 Archived-At: BobD writes: > But of course. I'm fooling with old elisp that uses > "setq" willy-nilly, defying the notational > structuring with which latter day programmers have > been (properly) indoctrinated. If I must, I can > wedge some let's into the code. And: use `let*' if any variable depend on and uses a previously defined one to do its computation. Actually I see no harm using let* all the time. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573