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: `thunk-let'? Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 06:21:12 +0100 Message-ID: <87r2sk8fg7.fsf@web.de> References: <87infp9z6j.fsf@web.de> <87zi90eehg.fsf@web.de> <87o9ocd6s4.fsf@web.de> <87wp2zcwm2.fsf@web.de> <87mv3vwb2c.fsf_-_@web.de> <87h8tnowl4.fsf@web.de> <83vai3asgt.fsf@gnu.org> <83mv3eb85m.fsf@gnu.org> <87a7zdbsyf.fsf@web.de> <873755hbpr.fsf@web.de> <873754bm10.fsf@web.de> <83r2so9in9.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511760128 9445 195.159.176.226 (27 Nov 2017 05:22:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:22:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Stefan Monnier , pipcet@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 27 06:22:02 2017 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 1eJBrk-0001pp-Bh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 06:22:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59233 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eJBrr-0002wk-Kz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:22:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56713) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eJBrB-0002v5-H8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:21:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eJBr7-0002Hs-Ij for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:21:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:52776) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eJBr7-0002HW-8Y; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:21:21 -0500 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([88.66.201.17]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb001 [213.165.67.108]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MCqWJ-1eR8Lh2Qmh-009k43; Mon, 27 Nov 2017 06:21:14 +0100 In-Reply-To: <83r2so9in9.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 24 Nov 2017 10:37:46 +0200") X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:ibRpG/3dFisjEOuSuQAr+bcTeXcwoJKNe4xyElTgO3gdjHQlbWm hRjkFcTI0owg1RVnCXX4xy3GSlhmqV2S2dIlKRbbIUPjqcZ4tlsnngsYyRmJjHaq3+J2oA2 i2UVN4x0YlOzz2tOkDXeETOy+N+4J/17TsubI02ckdug6LNowFtswwoz8bH/dQIp0sESMVZ qoaErK5fcjHFG6MChc89g== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:wpQYAQdsZiE=:eHugFeAWnK0XE0MjyztNDP HvhuKUkXv1wHGxNkubD4Mz9stbDz5ol1P/1RYhyAmIZ52J/QJftJL9NZVv9cs7mzNEEHFjeGU we8gRzCt+crQBAorlUsp8vKgfjn9G+kSrw+Z/Txw/oCShNBXW9f2RKmiO5kOQrfPHbpN+hySq 9s9ArVR8d6SiksWrjm9fPVjyuFaw6O7EQuCmYEAZG6A96i2b6bsTsqP/IAOZ0K0SVKiQEr6Q8 RizV2GjwOZyIGtzIrxwN+apn0L8yNY1dGsw5gJE48hLzBjtzslEKEez1pqGCqf64rlAgyBcXw 16wuVLX8Par4Mn32A2ZUQAk/FgBSUyPv8/0eHrT52rX22UPzdheP3kNu2dDoH/otcYVPI+hO+ /mppZvZ7SczhP59n72leiLmkKku8eke9uK2QSXIwyYTWXVsb/Qyo27qYh2e6fcDbyZGwhjG5v psUj4Ebkevf/VgBjxYyZv+l1u39OKkDr3fOsajIE8zffNkbvE9K38Ulyq/yYQXI2/Ae4vvGhi zjqoZmyQ4W5E3NWXc+kDv6OmktYc8RWngK2Lyj3vSxyLp8aQN7yTN0Du+1c2DtfltMmKHoujV VPQykuaQVeCLRLt1UYjadAQ8qbuBfDo0FVVm/KVNLaCUEChkXekNIRb/OFG48apj2npDtEaay kuVDvWYXuQvWDXAMHj4vDh80DYx3yUc1BjiI72ycvO7njCPFF7v4V6aOROFXCurwX+D8QzCiy aZsbWh7ph970uC8aMJLQG2MD2MZ3ywt89ytsrPKtarvGQUdBJcfXMgbb1+FYinxov2FLb6Yx X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.4 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:220476 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > My opinion about this doesn't necessarily mean much, but I think such > n alias could be a good thing. Hmm - Would it even be acceptable to make `lazy-let' and `lazy-let*' the only names? It would be strange if we would provide `lazy-let' and `lazy-let*' as alias names because we think they are actually the more suitable names, and present the macros in the manual as `thunk-let' and `thunk-let*'. OTOH, if we call them `lazy-let' and `lazy-let*' in the docs and everywhere, it would be strange to define them as `lazy-let' and `lazy-let*' in the first place, and then nobody really uses these names. Thanks, Michael.