From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 67116@debbugs.gnu.org, acm@muc.de, eliz@gnu.org,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#67116: byte-compile-let: reversing the order of evaluation of the clauses CAN make a difference.
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 21:56:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1r2jb3-0005jf-DH@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
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> first evaluates the expressions value1, value2,
> and so on, in that order, saving the resulting values.
> Then all of the variables varj are bound to the
> corresponding values in parallel
That is what `let' did in MacLisp, and what it does in Emacs Lisp too.
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-11 22:48 bug#67116: byte-compile-let: reversing the order of evaluation of the clauses CAN make a difference Alan Mackenzie
2023-11-12 4:52 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-12 6:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-12 14:22 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-11-12 19:32 ` Drew Adams
2023-11-14 2:56 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2023-11-12 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-12 14:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-11-12 17:06 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-11-12 14:21 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-11-12 14:41 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-11-13 11:19 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-11-13 13:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
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