Re: Is there any easy way to fork in elisp? Why not?

[Richard Stallman]

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    > The fork API could be:
    > ```
    > (let-fork ((some_val (expensive_compute)) ...)  
    >  (lambda()
    >    (message "Computed: %s" some_val)))

I don't see why this needs to do a fork at all.
If `expensive_compute' does not set any free variables
and does not modify preexisting data structures,
it should work to define `let-fork' as equivalent to `let'.

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