Re: Sweeter Emacs Lisp

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:

>> Destructuring lambda argument lists (a la Common Lisp) would be very
>> nice, yes, but is probably an uphill battle.
>
> Why?

Wouldn't it be difficult to implement it so that it would be
backwards-compatible?  Hm...  perhaps not?

(defmacro foo ((bar zot &rest gazonk) &body body)
  ...)

would probably be unambiguous.  In which case, I vote for introducing
this in Emacs Lisp.  :-)

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