bug#73853: Should and-let* become a synonym for when-let*?

Arash Esbati <[email protected]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:09:22 +0200

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Stefan Kangas <[email protected]> writes:

> Your proposal seems to be that we should rethink the decision to mark
> `when-let`/`if-let` as obsolete.  Is that correct?

Should this report be closed now?  NEWS.31 has:

  +++
  ** 'if-let' and 'when-let' are now obsolete.
  Use 'if-let*', 'when-let*' and 'and-let*' instead.

  This effectively obsoletes the old '(if-let (SYMBOL SOMETHING) ...)'
  single binding syntax, which we'd kept only for backwards compatibility.

I think the decision haa been made.

Best, Arash