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bug#73853: 31.0.50; and-let* is useless
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Michael Heerdegen |
Subject: |
bug#73853: 31.0.50; and-let* is useless |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Oct 2024 04:11:23 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
> Can we kill/deprecate this?
`and-let*'s purpose is to express conditions, `when-let*'s is
conditional evaluation. We have `and-let*' and `when-let*' for the same
reason we have `and' and `when'. See prior discussions.
> [ I think we have too many (if|when|and)-let(*) for our own good: we
> should pick some winners and deprecate the other ones. ]
AFAIR the non-star versions exist for backward compatibility only - so I
would rather get rid of these. Parallel existence of these non-star
vs. star versions should be a temporary state, it complicates the matter
for an epsilon gain.
> I could see a use for something called `and-let(*)` but without a BODY,
> for the purpose of remove a level of parens and indentation:
>
> (and-let*
> (x1 (foo1))
> (x2 (foo2)))
>
> i.s.o
>
> (and-let*
> ((x1 (foo1))
> (x2 (foo2))))
Ugh! - I could not imagine anything with more potential for confusion as
removing the paren around a list of bindings. This would add one more
year-lasting round of discussing these constructs. If you do this,
please call it `and-let*?@!' so than everybody is warned.
Michael.