From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
To: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>,
73853@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#73853: 31.0.50; and-let* is useless
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:09:04 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y12hirof.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878quh6dg7.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen via's message of "Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:57:12 +0200")
Hello,
On Mon 21 Oct 2024 at 10:57am +02, Michael Heerdegen via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" wrote:
> Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I always type `if-let' because it looks cleaner and saves one indentation
>> column (which are purely cosmetic reasons), but also I think it would be
>> weird to have a something* when there's no accompanying something.
>
> Good point, we should decide which names to use. Personally i prefer
> the names ending with star, because bindings are not parallel as in
> `let'. But we also already spoke about this. Dunno which names are
> more popular, it's a matter of taste.
I prefer if-let* for this reason too. Also:
- it informs a reader that there is no way they are going to see the
unusual single binding syntax.
- Common Lisp's ubiquitous Alexandria library of basic utilities has an
if-let which has the unusual single binding syntax. In fact, that is
probably where our if-let came from. So if we are moving away from
that, it makes sense to use a different name for the thing we
invented -- if-let*.
--
Sean Whitton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-21 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-17 16:27 bug#73853: 31.0.50; and-let* is useless Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-17 16:40 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-18 2:11 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-18 23:42 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-19 3:50 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-21 7:07 ` Augusto Stoffel
2024-10-21 8:57 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-21 12:09 ` Sean Whitton [this message]
2024-10-19 3:38 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-20 12:24 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-10-22 14:47 ` bug#73853: 31.0.50; Should and-let* become a synonym for when-let*? Sean Whitton
2024-10-22 15:24 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-23 14:05 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-10-24 8:51 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-25 12:09 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-30 9:42 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-26 19:25 ` Jim Porter
2024-10-27 7:08 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-10-27 9:16 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-27 10:12 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-27 11:24 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-27 11:32 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-27 11:44 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-27 12:28 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-27 13:10 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-27 13:22 ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-28 9:39 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-27 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-28 13:58 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-28 14:32 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-27 20:00 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-28 2:15 ` Howard Melman
2024-10-28 3:19 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-29 15:21 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2024-10-29 16:36 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-10-30 0:49 ` Sean Whitton
2024-10-30 12:55 ` Corwin Brust
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