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Re: Should lexical-let use let in the situation lexical-binding is t ?


From: Sam Steingold
Subject: Re: Should lexical-let use let in the situation lexical-binding is t ?
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:06:53 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux)

> * Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> [2012-09-19 23:26:41 -0400]:
>
>> yep, that's why Common Lisp recommends defvar'd variables to be named
>> with "*" around the names.
>
> Yup, and in Elisp we use the "<prefix>-" convention instead (which
> was originally introduced to make up for the lack of packages).

yep, and `tab-width' is a perfect example of why this is not a good
convention.

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