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bug#411: 23.0.60; flet and byte-compilation
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Stefan Monnier |
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bug#411: 23.0.60; flet and byte-compilation |
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Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:06:39 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> Indeed, because `cl-flet' is a different beast, much more
>> like `labels' than like CL's `flet' (it is lexically scoped).
> Just out of curiosity (and I haven't followed this thread), why?
Because:
- CL's `flet' is completely unlike Common-Lisp's `flet'.
- CL's `flet' is more like defadvice, except (dynamically) scoped and
without adjusting the docstring to at least mention that something
fishy is going on.
IOW because CL's `flet' does something we generally want to discourage.
Or rather, because CL's `flet' was a mistake, hence its being
marked obsolete.
> Or call this `foobar' or whatever. Calling it `cl-flet' seems the more
> misleading the farther the behavior gets from CL's `flet' - no?
`cl-flet' is a (hopefully) faithful implementation of Common-Lisp's
`flet', so I think it deserves its name.
Stefan