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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: Tangling is broken in git master
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 10:46:27 -0400
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Cc: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org

Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com> wrote:

> Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com> writes:
> >
> >> I've just pushed up another version of this commit, which I believe
> >> removes cl-labels while still preserving tangling behavior.  If you have
> >> a chance please re-check tangling with the latest Org-mode.
> >
> > `letrec' is not available on Emacs <24.1 
> >
> > Your commit looks like the one I pushed here...
> > http://orgmode.org/w/?p=org-mode.git;a=commit;h=ba16c3
> >
> > ... and reverted, thanks to Bernt's report.
> >
> > Apart from one replacement of org-labels with `let*' in ob.el,
> > I don't see how we can get rid of `org-labels' completely.
> 
> Oh, my apologies, I just reverted my commit.  I thought letrec was an
> old elisp construct.  I'm happy to stick with using org-labels (the code
> was much more readable using org-labels).
> 
> I'm surprised that elisp doesn't provide any mechanism for local
> anonymous functions.  I can't imagine why this would be an intentional
> design decision.
> 

Can't the definition of letrec in emacs24 be lifted bodily into org-compat.el
(or whatever the correct place is) as a compatibility-with-emacs-23 macro?

Nick