Re: maxima's private "let"



>>>>> "James" == James Amundson <amundson@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

    James> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 08:31, Raymond Toy wrote:
    >> Why not rename them 

    James> Renaming sounds like a good idea.

    >> letf and letf*?  I think cmucl has a destructuring
    >> let named letf.

    James> Does cmucl's letf have exactly the same behavior as Maxima's internal
    James> letf? If not, I would worry about adding to the confusion. Perhaps
    James> another name would be better.

I'm mistaken.  cmucl's letf doesn't do destructuring.  In fact, I'm
not really sure what letf does.  It seems it's like let, but the
variable is some kind of generalized place, instead of just variable.

So maybe destructuring-let and destructuring-let* would be good (if
long) names.

Ray