GNU bug report logs - #411
23.0.60; flet and byte-compilation

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de

Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:25:06 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 24.3

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #43 received at 411 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 411 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#411: 23.0.60; flet and byte-compilation
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:06:39 -0400

>> Indeed, because `cl-flet' is a different beast, much more
>> like `labels' than like CL's `flet' (it is lexically scoped).
> Just out of curiosity (and I haven't followed this thread), why?

Because:
- CL's `flet' is completely unlike Common-Lisp's `flet'.
- CL's `flet' is more like defadvice, except (dynamically) scoped and
  without adjusting the docstring to at least mention that something
  fishy is going on.
IOW because CL's `flet' does something we generally want to discourage.
Or rather, because CL's `flet' was a mistake, hence its being
marked obsolete.
  
> Or call this `foobar' or whatever.  Calling it `cl-flet' seems the more
> misleading the farther the behavior gets from CL's `flet' - no?

`cl-flet' is a (hopefully) faithful implementation of Common-Lisp's
`flet', so I think it deserves its name.


        Stefan
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