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: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:58:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5581C29E.1030101@yandex.ru> <87r3p9fxm2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87k2v0fiji.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20150619090225.GA2743@acm.fritz.box> <87fv5kfrfa.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83twtzhi9g.fsf@gnu.org> <877fqvfvby.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83fv5jh8ls.fsf@gnu.org> <874mlzf71d.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <558945C2.2010203@yandex.ru> <5589E2DB.1060207@yandex.ru> <558AD06F.6080200@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435327113 27461 80.91.229.3 (26 Jun 2015 13:58:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 13:58:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, acm@muc.de, stephen@xemacs.org, eliz@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 26 15:58:22 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8U93-0001Da-Ga for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 15:58:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60203 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8U92-0000aP-W6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:58:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38842) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8U8z-0000YH-0I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:58:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8U8x-0008Ib-SG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:58:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57915) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8U8n-0008Ak-AQ; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:58:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8U8m-0007fi-AU; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:58:00 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:15:49 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:187563 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] macroexp-let2 is written in a very strange way, computing a value for ,var, then testing ,var to determine whether to bind a variable to the value of EXP or use EXP directly. If there is a reason for this, I don't see it -- so that reason ought to be explained by a comment. If there isn't a reason, why not write it in a clearer way? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.