Re: [PATCH] Fix (letrec ((ignore)))

[David Kastrup]

John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I should have checked before writing my last contribution, but (let ((foo)
>> ...) ...) is actually documented as permissible in the Elisp manual.
>
>> That weakens considerably the case for making it invalid.
>
> Perhaps this is a bug both in the code and the manual?  What say others?

It's awful as far as I'm concerned.  But being documented and available
for a long time, deprecating it is a slow process, starting with
undocumenting it and giving byte compiler warnings.

I'd not mind getting it on the way.

-- 
David Kastrup