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bug#57907: 29.0.50; Using keywords with cl-loop
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Philip Kaludercic |
Subject: |
bug#57907: 29.0.50; Using keywords with cl-loop |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Sep 2022 12:46:18 +0000 |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Why would this be necessary? I am not saying that `cl-loop' should be
>> converted into a proper keyword-macro, just that each `:foo' in a
>> loop-keyword position ought to be interpreted as `foo'.
>
> You said that cl-loop would be more comfortable if "it doesn't have to
> feel like you are using a whole new language, but instead these are
> just keyword arguments to an unusual function call".
>
> I'm pointing out that this is wrong -- they are not keyword arguments,
> and if you think that they are, you're going to be using it wrong.
>
> In other words, it is a whole new language, not just keyword arguments.
I phrased that clumsily -- while it is a new language, it doesn't always
have to feel like one. E.g. the repeat-collect example I gave before.
If you *can* use keywords, you *can* make some cl-loop invocations
appear to be a macro or a function call with keyword-arguments.
But of course this wouldn't be the case, as the macro should stay
backwards compatible.
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bug#57907: 29.0.50; Using keywords with cl-loop, Gerd Möllmann, 2022/09/18