From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Filipp Gunbin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What does "lacks a prefix" mean? Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:23:38 +0300 Message-ID: References: <1e0ad02f-ca3e-495c-bb85-61f77090d31d@googlegroups.com> <87bnfmqzn2.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87io9ui67a.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1436455451 29710 80.91.229.3 (9 Jul 2015 15:24:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 15:24:11 +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 17:24:02 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 1ZDDg7-00034a-7V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 17:23:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40442 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZDDg6-0007q3-6I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 11:23:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52413) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZDDfu-0007pk-Pj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 11:23:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZDDfr-0007Rz-II for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 11:23:46 -0400 Original-Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:38431) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZDDfr-0007R6-EF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 11:23:43 -0400 Original-Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.internal [10.202.2.42]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA8C520703 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2015 11:23:41 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 09 Jul 2015 11:23:41 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fastmail.fm; h= content-type:date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=b43RA kU8u00A5nGVetEXDB4CVus=; b=D8cOh2YO2XYxpiBdq0jTJ5TUTdxm3B2P3StsY tDPQVBg9tOqwnlVjZAJMr7z1vzzSkKxQY2NpSwBeWPQ28luSFx0bhJSvF99lmfhx smgQJXyh5nvLXgWEXb2Wqd7acecPHvmwDi1kxvRd5Oc06+R90+xPfpS4/cf/liS/ Ag2OE8= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=b43RAkU8u00A5nGVetEXDB4CVus=; b=eLVPu qFoo5SNreHgMxGajVIERWnA2rC5Ieln8YsFiWm4soly2BQtpMgWdkcVsibADRc1N n2l2QaliSS+u3tSZ+qPWaCS08W/qZP5skCFx/frNkG/pFiX8Bw5IMzs4kh4bQL81 tHCgjcsky2iSjFozz93lqW7as/ADRvPQ9gabU0= X-Sasl-enc: /LxYlLaub++S94lw43NPFMbySlWCYUpwQgc7e6QlJZ0f 1436455420 Original-Received: from fgunbin.local (unknown [94.25.218.10]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C88EDC00022 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2015 11:23:40 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87io9ui67a.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Thu, 09 Jul 2015 01:24:09 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 66.111.4.26 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:105562 Archived-At: On 09/07/2015 01:24 +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > BobD writes: > >> But of course. I'm fooling with old elisp that uses >> "setq" willy-nilly, defying the notational >> structuring with which latter day programmers have >> been (properly) indoctrinated. If I must, I can >> wedge some let's into the code. > > And: use `let*' if any variable depend on and uses > a previously defined one to do its computation. > > Actually I see no harm using let* all the time. let* says "I need variables which depend on each other" and if they're really not, that look strange. And probably it's a bit slower. And non-parallelizable theoretically :) Filipp