GNU bug report logs - #26073
How should cl-symbol-macrolet interact with rebindings?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 13:26:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 26073 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 26073 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26073: workaround
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 20:49:51 -0400

> Attached patch is a workaround for the bug. It adds special handling
> of lambdas to `cl--sm-macroexpand', similar to the way it handles
> `let'. However, there is an unhandled case of "binding" symbols to
> forms. I'm also not sure what would be correct behavior in old
> non-lexical-scope code (do we still care?).

Hmm... I'm wondering why generator.el uses cl-symbol-macrolet like that,
but indeed the precise behavior of cl-symbol-macrolet is currently
a bit fishy.


        Stefan
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