From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: if-let/if-let*/and-let/.. Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 23:24:28 +0100 Message-ID: <87k1uklwf7.fsf@web.de> References: <87wozgph70.fsf@udel.edu> <87y3jv186x.fsf@web.de> <87sh9t4yrj.fsf@web.de> <877er5e9vx.fsf@web.de> <874llx9riy.fsf@web.de> <87r2oxtff3.fsf@web.de> <87a7vlgqzu.fsf@web.de> <83vae9qf0f.fsf@gnu.org> <87h8psx98a.fsf@web.de> <834llqptbj.fsf@gnu.org> <87d10d5lfl.fsf@web.de> <831sgtw9gi.fsf@gnu.org> <877eql5j1r.fsf@web.de> <83woylushg.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3j143b3.fsf@web.de> <83vae5un1s.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520634202 27897 195.159.176.226 (9 Mar 2018 22:23:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 22:23:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 09 23:23:18 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1euQQ0-00079o-Eg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 23:23:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48418 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euQS3-0004Rn-Aj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 17:25:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46980) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euQRR-0004RZ-WE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 17:24:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euQRP-0002Kh-C1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 17:24:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.3]:55711) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euQRL-0002JN-JW; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 17:24:39 -0500 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([188.99.169.170]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb004 [213.165.67.108]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LzEO1-1eYPNf3KJV-014WOT; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 23:24:30 +0100 In-Reply-To: <83vae5un1s.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 09 Mar 2018 20:22:07 +0200") X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:gF+zPzQjvx7PYepDy5WPXtj2a3qxnxHRemnTbmv2obaTEA6HBCQ iywXHQIJ+AeV0KZ5VVXTwhtCN1HGYvIOmTAcgDKVv7En2iDvTIT9ekzxtTmfasV6xEiXg27 N5PEI2EJ3+Mk8JHMsKXfkjEtYISR/lP4BdJmGoEZumu46S2fEcu9p/8LJ5L8SjlfqME1kVZ q3f+Oj2Qnul1EeOmImkNg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:nuAYJjVMAWI=:Nh5iImxpb7B82sb3px+7Rh Ra5W6nkOKoYG/PoGgv2Yhn1N6ILpBgBCvjtc3fPbitq0RJylLvuzGnolQm3yZUx96ElwYzYT2 TK5Gzc2zlJZkqAD5lBEKI/IAoO0MKEvV2O56MAEK7nEvDCczysrslAm+bX4lGxDs30EMqib// HlXB/jo9BzBCvuNhD0l9tMzwuoTXxpO4q588fMQ6/JLPTpxCbrb1enMH86RMV4T2HBiSSHbYS I3Qq+xZ+rzQjjzwCxe5yAwhjg0QIOgKs7ZcusHdjrtFRat+XcJhzSqzoJg+4WEHZ1eyqhbuiu 0hpUROVlZbWG0lEzNQmPJKflbtcg51FTAQ8UFq9QlVqQS0YW1F8iXL1O48/R6f5pHCCyOQBIM qoIyAq5wJEiZRZm8rObj9PpqaXlbaTRsCrIrFti7EzPktX1rap98CEAaoKfaqeHw1cgwkRb7k SMcdnsRKte6ybZTwsF+EYFoaORtzNr+Y/sFPcCsgyH3lDf0xK2Tb/5bmsBvhdvbL//vkhODwd 9nYaCmtpPHh40K9si6dMrz9z5238K+SvcS9Dnn9lX/anFAlJ3IkmFe3idJTIy4kLu+YCUUcsq tJ1ekjdU44uzHGFkhjiQNoNkZbI4B7I+rnXZ0JyQ9UkBiYfTBNRNWdw5MmGeZOkQ+ExGCCqUg cSjXasWCQNlka1kkc6rA4c2WFAn5P8x3nT37Qc2AKLtd5QrOK+XiHiVsMrhTUQgI9zUpBVFCT SW2RtQnH2l2BnOHqF/95eDq73wcIWW4A5BYsOB57dAqm6EhyDN85UE/MH2J4nFyEpWDNOQUZ X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223565 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > I don't see why would that be a mess. Two APIs that produce the same > effect in some cases, but not in others, are nothing new. What is new, however, is that having two different APIs doesn't make any sense here. > So I think this is what we should do on the release branch. If you don't object to unite the two APIs in master, I'm ok with that decision. However, I then would like to change the NEWS entry in the release branch so that it doesn't mention the new foo-let* names, because these will be only synonyms for foo-let in subsequent releases, and letting NEWS introduce them now as something different would only cause confusion. Thanks, Michael.