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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: Christian Ohler <ohler@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lexical binding
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 02:12:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTinb_x2WKb=vrprmAHV07e=C=Zy7ew@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D99038B.7060702@gnu.org>

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 01:32, Christian Ohler <ohler@gnu.org> wrote:

> How about:
>
>    (loop for (name width . rest) in bs-attributes-list
>          do (ignore name rest)
>          if (numberp width) sum width)

All these are just workarounds, none of them pretty. I think I'll go
with using nil in the destructuring.

> IIRC, Common Lisp distinguishes between (declare (ignore ...)) and (declare
> (ignorable ...)).  The latter is useful for macros that introduce bindings
> that may or may not be used.

Yes, "3.8 The Evaluation and Compilation Dictionary", "Declaration
IGNORE, IGNORABLE" in the Common Lisp Hyperspec.

> If this is the
> case, then I agree it's not quite expressive enough, and requires idioms
> like the above (with many macros, not just `loop').

Agreed.

    Juanma



  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-04  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-01 17:32 Lexical binding Stefan Monnier
2011-04-01 19:12 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2011-04-01 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-04 16:05   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-01 20:04 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-04-01 20:39 ` cedet-bzr build failure (was : Lexical binding) Darren Hoo
2011-04-01 21:21   ` David Engster
2011-04-01 22:26     ` Darren Hoo
2011-04-02 12:40       ` David Engster
2011-04-02 13:42         ` Eric M. Ludlam
2011-04-02 18:22           ` cedet-bzr build failure David Engster
2011-04-02 18:29         ` cedet-bzr build failure (was : Lexical binding) Darren Hoo
2011-04-01 20:42 ` Lexical binding Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-01 22:13   ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-02  2:33 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-02  3:36   ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-02 18:38     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-04 16:04       ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-04 21:44         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-04 21:56           ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-04 22:03           ` David Kastrup
2011-04-04 22:34             ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-02 18:38   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-02 18:50     ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-02 18:57       ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-03 12:05         ` Christian Ohler
2011-04-03 12:26           ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-04-03 23:32             ` Christian Ohler
2011-04-04  0:12               ` Juanma Barranquero [this message]
2011-04-04 16:22               ` Stefan Monnier

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