From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Always using let*
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:48:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3zbuqp8.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.8998.1410901776.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> In some cases, `setq' can't be easily avoided, but
> otherwise, I strongly recommend let* over let+setq.
Absolutely, it totally goes against my instinct to use
let and then setq!
> If it depended on me, I'd swap the two since in most
> cases you could use let*, it's very rare to really
> need `let'.
You mean "let, and not let*?" Because I use let all the
time and I don't think that is uncommon.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-16 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-14 19:46 Always using let* Cecil Westerhof
2014-09-14 21:25 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-15 16:15 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.8924.1410797740.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-15 18:01 ` Cecil Westerhof
2014-09-15 22:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-16 12:05 ` Cecil Westerhof
2014-09-16 22:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-18 17:02 ` Cecil Westerhof
2014-09-18 21:05 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-16 14:23 ` sokobania.01
2014-09-16 16:41 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-16 20:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-16 22:45 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.8998.1410901776.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-16 22:48 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2014-09-17 1:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-17 1:18 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-14 21:40 ` Joe Fineman
[not found] ` <mailman.8868.1410729956.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-14 21:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-14 22:11 ` Cecil Westerhof
2014-09-14 22:56 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-14 22:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-14 23:06 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.8871.1410736002.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-15 0:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-15 2:12 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-09-15 2:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-15 2:59 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-09-15 12:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-15 16:15 ` Drew Adams
2014-09-15 19:05 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.8930.1410808006.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-15 22:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-16 0:38 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-09-15 13:14 ` Barry Margolin
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