Re: local binding, too local...

[Barry Fishman]

On 2018-12-08 11:41:10 -05, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>       (let* ((bar '(baz quux))) 
>>         (setf (car bar) 'xyzzy) 
>>         (let ((plugh (cdr bar))) 
>>           (message "%s" plugh)))) 
>>
>> Can also be written
>>
>>    (let (bar plugh) 
>>     (setf bar '(baz quux))
>>     (setf (car bar) 'xyzzy)
>>     (setf plugh (cdr bar)))
>
> Indeed, but you lose a lot of karma points for that,

Haven't you already lost all your karma points by modifying a literal list no
matter how you do it. ;-)

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Barry Fishman