From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Generators (iterators) for Gnu Emacs Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:51:24 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877fy77zhp.fsf@web.de> <874mtato99.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417791122 21790 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2014 14:52:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 14:52:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 05 15:51:55 2014 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 1XwuEc-0006Ly-KG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:51:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50765 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwuEZ-0000ip-RO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:51:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53708) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwuEP-0000ig-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:51:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwuEI-0000Mo-3L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:51:41 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:18208) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XwuE8-0000Ir-Rj; Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:51:24 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjwPAOwQflRMCqTq/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kiEoJ1lkBAQEBBgEBAQEekG8HhEgFiwGMVJdagXiEGSGCdwEBAQ X-IPAS-Result: AjwPAOwQflRMCqTq/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kiEoJ1lkBAQEBBgEBAQEekG8HhEgFiwGMVJdagXiEGSGCdwEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,502,1413259200"; d="scan'208";a="99636782" Original-Received: from 76-10-164-234.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.164.234]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 05 Dec 2014 09:51:24 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1731A87F8; Fri, 5 Dec 2014 09:51:24 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <874mtato99.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Fri, 05 Dec 2014 10:54:58 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:178932 Archived-At: > Uh what? The whole point of the make-symbol abomination is to get a > symbol uniquely used by only one instance of the lambda function. > This is _exactly_ in order to _not_ require lexical binding. AFAICT this make-symbol is there to avoid name capture. Stefan