From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>,
Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: let-alias
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 13:39:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c059e815-5c71-6f8f-39f1-daa2d616032e@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkRMWtQ0bm7TjJG-Ra-UnCpGy9b0ZUuD8T3-hav3+RO=ew@mail.gmail.com>
On 5/6/20 1:31 PM, Philipp Stephani wrote:
> Am Mi., 6. Mai 2020 um 20:51 Uhr schrieb Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>:
>>
>> After the recent discussion about namespaces, it occurred to me that it
>> would be useful to have a special form that allows one to create
>> lexically scoped aliases for function bindings.
>>
>> The idea is quite simple and is supposed to provide a locally scoped
>> version of defalias. A possible syntax would be:
>>
>> (let-alias ((new-name old-name) ...)
>> body...)
Isn't that just symbol-macrolet?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-06 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-06 18:50 let-alias Helmut Eller
2020-05-06 20:31 ` let-alias Philipp Stephani
2020-05-06 20:39 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2020-05-06 21:29 ` let-alias Helmut Eller
2020-05-06 21:30 ` let-alias Daniel Colascione
2020-05-06 21:34 ` let-alias Helmut Eller
2020-05-06 21:27 ` let-alias Helmut Eller
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