From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What does "lacks a prefix" mean? Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 10:01:42 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <1e0ad02f-ca3e-495c-bb85-61f77090d31d@googlegroups.com> <87bnfmqzn2.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1436450727 12387 80.91.229.3 (9 Jul 2015 14:05:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 14:05:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 09 16:05:27 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1ZDCS5-00009k-NA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 16:05:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40102 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZDCS5-0003w1-6a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 10:05:25 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="1584"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18gycfgZOFVeATbXCph181I" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PQ2eS2Z8FM8iUi2AvvmyVqFtBok= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:213273 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105560 Archived-At: In article , Emanuel Berg wrote: > Actually I see no harm using let* all the time. This is a frequent subject of style arguments. As far as the computer is concerned, there should be no problem with using let* all the time. But to human readers, it makes a difference. Some of us view the * as being a red flag, warning the reader that something unusual is being done. We'll then expend more mental energy looking for the dependencies. let is the "normal" method, let* is "special". -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***