Re: master 2e9111813b: Add two classic Common Lisp macro-writing macros

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Tue 12 Apr 2022 at 11:58pm -04, Richard Stallman wrote:

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>   > >     Add two classic Common Lisp macro-writing macros
>   > >
>   > >     * lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-macs.el (cl-with-gensyms, cl-once-only): New 
> macros.
>
>   > Doesn't this need documentation and an entry in NEWS?
>
> Are they needed only for compatibility with some Common Lisp programs?
>
> If these are useful new features, why define them with `cl-' in their names?
>
> If they aren't, why define them at all?

They're useful new features rather than for compat.

Stefan was concerned that "once-only" is not descriptive enough.  But
it's the usual CL name for this macro.  So I concluded that prefixing
both with cl- will be easiest to memorise.

-- 
Sean Whitton