From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs lisp syntax rfc: (cond (EXPR => (lambda (X) ...))) Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:43:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87tyhoa67u.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <20110105.234046.1611011828799323301.hanche@math.ntnu.no> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294341528 29301 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2011 19:18:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 19:18:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Harald Hanche-Olsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 06 20:18:43 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PavMB-0003IL-EK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:18:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49660 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PavMA-0008Jw-N5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:18:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49760 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Paunj-0000P3-H5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:43:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pauni-0005iD-GJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:43:07 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:43015) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pauni-0005i9-D6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:43:06 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Paund-0005kl-TC; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:43:01 -0500 In-reply-to: <20110105.234046.1611011828799323301.hanche@math.ntnu.no> (message from Harald Hanche-Olsen on Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:40:46 +0100 (CET)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:134336 Archived-At: However, it seems to me that we are now coming up with rather convoluted schemes in which scoping become far from obvious, The scoping in my proposal is quite natural. A variable is bound where it appears, and the scope ends at the end of the cond-form. I agree that this is not an important feature. I am not arguing in favor of it. However, if such a feature is to be considered, it should be a clean and simple one. -- Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org