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24.3.50; (cl) `Porting Common Lisp'

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Message #8 received at 15172 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 15172 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15172: 24.3.50; (cl) `Porting Common Lisp'
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:45:21 -0800

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> 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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