Re: constant `e'

[Daniel Brockman]

Alan,

>> The concept of `non-nil' is very basic to me, so I do not have to
>> filter anything out of `(not (null ...))', because it is already
>> phrased the way I think about it.
>
> The concept of `non-nil' is so basic to me that I don't
> see any need to express it explicitly.  ;-)

That might actually be it. :-)

> What gets my goat up is when natural idiomatic C,
> something like this:
>
>     while (i--)
>        <statement>
>
> has to be recoded [...]

Yes, I agree.  That is completely stupid --- I think
the idiomatic style both looks better and is clearer.

> However, I rarely change anything "long-winded" in anybody else's code.
> It creates bad feeling for no objective benefit.

So maybe it's a good thing we don't have `otherwise'.
Having just one standard way avoids that bad feeling.

-- 
Daniel Brockman <address@hidden>