GNU bug report logs - #27177
26.0.50: Macroexpanding cl-loop and friends (make-symbol usage)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alex <agrambot <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 23:25:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 26.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #41 received at 27177 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Alex <agrambot <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, 27177 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: bug#27177: 26.0.50: Macroexpanding cl-loop and friends
 (make-symbol usage)
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 22:33:30 -0400

> Stefan, why did you make the switch? Using cl-gensym would help a ton
> with readability of cl-loop's macroexpansion.

I don't consider human-readability of the result to be something that
a macro should have to pay attention to.


        Stefan
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