Subject: Re: bug#33550: [PATCH] mention let* in if-let

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 20:25:56 -0400

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Alex Branham <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 13:18:54 -0600
>> 
>> I think this patch makes it much clearer that if-let functions like
>> let*, not let.
>
> Doesn't "in turn" already say that?

I think it's a bit ambiguous, it could refer to the fact that each
VALUEFORM is evaluted sequentially.  It's not entirely obvious that
previous SYMBOL bindings are available to follow VALUEFORMs, as in let*
rather than let (which would be the more obvious choice for if-let as
opposed to if-let*).