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bug#33550: [PATCH] mention let* in if-let


From: Noam Postavsky
Subject: bug#33550: [PATCH] mention let* in if-let
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 20:25:56 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Alex Branham <alex.branham@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 13:18:54 -0600
>> 
>> I think this patch makes it much clearer that if-let functions like
>> let*, not let.
>
> Doesn't "in turn" already say that?

I think it's a bit ambiguous, it could refer to the fact that each
VALUEFORM is evaluted sequentially.  It's not entirely obvious that
previous SYMBOL bindings are available to follow VALUEFORMs, as in let*
rather than let (which would be the more obvious choice for if-let as
opposed to if-let*).






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