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Re: What does "lacks a prefix" mean?


From: Filipp Gunbin
Subject: Re: What does "lacks a prefix" mean?
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:23:38 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (darwin)

On 09/07/2015 01:24 +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:

> BobD <daycandle@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> But of course. I'm fooling with old elisp that uses
>> "setq" willy-nilly, defying the notational
>> structuring with which latter day programmers have
>> been (properly) indoctrinated. If I must, I can
>> wedge some let's into the code.
>
> And: use `let*' if any variable depend on and uses
> a previously defined one to do its computation.
>
> Actually I see no harm using let* all the time.

let* says "I need variables which depend on each other" and if they're
really not, that look strange.

And probably it's a bit slower.

And non-parallelizable theoretically :)

Filipp



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