Re: if-let and when-let: parallel or sequential

[John Mastro]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> With several sequential bindings, the alternative is
>
>  (let* ...bindings...
>    (if ...))
>
> Thus, if-let saves just one level of nesting
> even if there are several bindings.

The current implementation in trunk is actually short-circuiting. So the
equivalent to:

    (when-let ((a (foo))
               (b (bar)))
        b)

Would be:

    (let ((a (foo)))
      (when a
        (let ((b (bar)))
          b)))

And so on.

The only non-Clojure variant of these that I'm really familiar with is
Alexandria's[1]. It has both `-let' and `-let*' versions, allows
multiple bindings, and is not short circuiting. (I don't say this to
suggest we should mimic them, just to expose "where I'm coming from").

Anyway, I agree with Bozhidar that they'll be nice to have regardless of
the particulars, so I'll gracefully bow out :)

[1] 
http://common-lisp.net/gitweb?p=projects/alexandria/alexandria.git;a=blob;f=binding.lisp

--
john