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bug#15172: 24.3.50; (cl) `Porting Common Lisp'
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#15172: 24.3.50; (cl) `Porting Common Lisp' |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:45:21 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> This part is unclear/misleading:
>
> "In Common Lisp, function arguments and `let' bindings apply
> only to references physically within their bodies
> (or within macro expansions in their bodies).
>
> It is unclear what "function arguments" refers to here. Does it mean
> the formal parameters of a function or its actual arguments? Or does
> it mean arguments whose values are functions?
I think that's kinda unlikely. Introducing terminology like "formal
parameters" here (that few are likely to understand) would just make
this even worse. Closing.
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