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Re: constant `e'
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: constant `e' |
Date: |
Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:01:36 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
Daniel Brockman <address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Daniel Brockman <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Seriously, though, I'd really like to see an `otherwise'
>>> constant (defined to `t', of course). That would make
>>> catch-all clauses of `cond' look much better.
>>
>> Disagree, that's an idiom.
>
> Of course it's an idiom. That doesn't mean it looks good.
Lisp is not designed to look good.
> I, as a speaker of Emacs Lisp, would prefer not to use this idiom if
> `otherwise' became an accepted alternative.
It didn't. Try getting it into Common Lisp first.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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