From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arun Isaac Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Anaphoric macros like when-let Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:11:16 +0530 Message-ID: References: <1a0f67f3.AEAAO93SX5gAAAAAAAAAAAPWCvIAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZodBb@mailjet.com> <87lgm4kbcx.fsf@netris.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1503913455 30240 195.159.176.226 (28 Aug 2017 09:44:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 09:44:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile User To: Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 28 11:44:10 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dmGaT-0007LG-G3 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2017 11:44:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37726 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dmGaa-000291-Et for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2017 05:44:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48738) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dmGYO-000136-I1 for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2017 05:41:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dmGYJ-0000xb-N9 for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2017 05:41:56 -0400 Original-Received: from o162.p8.mailjet.com ([87.253.233.162]:54694) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dmGYJ-0000uj-G7 for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2017 05:41:51 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; q=dns/txt; d=bnc3.mailjet.com; i=arunisaac=3Dsystemreboot.net@bnc3.mailjet.com; s=mailjet; h=message-id:mime-version:from:to:subject:date:list-unsubscribe:cc:in-reply-to: references:x-csa-complaints:x-mj-mid:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=BjTc49eEwR99l2PSZWyas1Xtknhv7vGjDNngt7KqZo4=; b=gq1EJrm0/k0W4DNJLXAZI6AJEjMUlj59ise7MrrFB0R2Uo4Prrz63XiJS qduzXbwjqWerJEGOPmVK0gzY2GQEf8u/mqxfEIdgHj4ym7FK9ZQs8VKvKvA2 xQvoahKj7SMDzcv8cvHQlYi+gE/MYapUXuUSBJnXw7JpiYQKyVKaKw= In-reply-to: <87lgm4kbcx.fsf@netris.org> X-CSA-Complaints: whitelist-complaints@eco.de X-MJ-Mid: AEEAPbjnQSkAAAAAAAAAAAPWCvIAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZo-Vb9lTMIizpRkqizcz5DBKTHAAFgUc X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 87.253.233.162 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:14073 Archived-At: Mark H Weaver writes: > mention that 'when-let' is not actually an anaphoric macro. Anaphoric > macros are those that introduce a binding that is not named by the > user, e.g. 'it', which is called an anaphor. Yes, you're right, of course! aif, awhen, etc. are the anaphoric macros. I switched to if-let, when-let, etc. when they became available in emacs lisp, and somehow wrongly continued to call them anaphoric macros. =