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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to put this in a macro
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:41:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-112908.17413817042010@62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20cf62c9-76ef-47c7-b9e4-edcc4b99b560@u34g2000yqu.googlegroups.com

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In article 
<20cf62c9-76ef-47c7-b9e4-edcc4b99b560@u34g2000yqu.googlegroups.com>,
 José A. Romero L. <escherdragon@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17 Kwi, 18:49, Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> (...)
> > > Hmm, be careful with lets inside macros - this will work OK until one
> > > of the variables you try to set is named precisely "temp" (no lexical
> > > scope, remember?).
> >
> > Another reason why his version should be a function.
> (...)
> 
> I don't think that would make any difference - let binds the same in
> functions as it does in macros.

Right.  You even mentioned non-lexical scoping, although that's actually 
irrelevant when it's a macro.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-17 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-16 21:13 How to put this in a macro Cecil Westerhof
2010-04-16 23:28 ` José A. Romero L.
2010-04-17  3:08 ` Barry Margolin
2010-04-17  6:38   ` Cecil Westerhof
2010-04-17 10:30     ` José A. Romero L.
2010-04-17 11:07       ` Cecil Westerhof
2010-04-17 11:40         ` Cecil Westerhof
2010-04-17 15:15           ` José A. Romero L.
2010-04-17 16:49             ` Barry Margolin
2010-04-17 16:57               ` José A. Romero L.
2010-04-17 21:41                 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2010-04-17 19:38             ` Cecil Westerhof
2010-04-17 23:58               ` José A. Romero L.
2010-04-17 12:13         ` José A. Romero L.
2010-04-17 15:14       ` Barry Margolin
2010-04-17 16:49         ` José A. Romero L.
2010-04-17 15:12     ` Barry Margolin
2010-04-18  7:50 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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