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29.0.50; cl-letf blindly macroexpands places

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Message #11 received at 57397 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 57397 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Subject: Re: cl-letf blindly macroexpands places
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 03:43:15 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> > Maybe it's enough to expand only symbol macros?
>
> Yes, that should still cover the original need in bug#26073 without
> breaking your use case.

Was it necessary to really expand symbol macros to fix that bug, or is
the purpose only to handle the following `symbolp' test correctly?

> But regardless of this, we should probably turn `gv-synthetic-place`
> into a function so it's more robust.

Why is it a macro?  Seems to work quite as well (using the same body and
gv-spec) when defined as a function.

Michael.

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