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29.0.50; cl-letf blindly macroexpands places

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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 57397 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#57397: cl-letf blindly macroexpands places
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:10:59 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> The original text was somewhat more self-explanatory:
>
>  To avoid syntactic redundancy, when @var{expander} is of the form
>  @code{(lambda (@var{arg}) @var{body})} the function's formal arguments
>  are automatically added to the lambda's list of arguments.
>
> This explains the reason, and actually reverses the cause and the
> effect, which then make sense.  (Although the issue with the form of
> lambda still stands.)

Hmm - I liked that wording more, too.

> What am I missing?

We needed to say more clearly that the given lambda form must have an
argument list of exactly one argument.

Michael.

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