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Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point)
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point) |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:28:26 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> > OTOH at a first glance *I* don't expect a control structures such as
>> > `when' to return any useful value when the conditional clause fails.
>> > But maybe I've been doing too much Scheme these days. (no, surely not
>>
>> You're just suffering from one of the many places where Scheme is
>> too imperative. For once, Elisp is more functional in this case.
> one-armed `if' when the condition is false has unspecified value.
> that's not "too imperative", just "underspecified" (for some tastes).
> see info node: "(r5rs) Conditionals".
Since it's unspecified, you can't rely on its value, so you end up using
that form in an imperative style. I.e. "too" imperative.
Stefan
- Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point), (continued)
- Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point), Emilio Lopes, 2005/08/26
- Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point), Emilio Lopes, 2005/08/26
- Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point), Stefan Monnier, 2005/08/26
- Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point), Emilio Lopes, 2005/08/27
- Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point), David Kastrup, 2005/08/28
- RE: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point), Drew Adams, 2005/08/29
- Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point), Emilio Lopes, 2005/08/31
- Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point), Emilio Lopes, 2005/08/29
- Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point), Stefan Monnier, 2005/08/29
- Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point), Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2005/08/29
- Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point),
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point), Richard M. Stallman, 2005/08/27
RE: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point), Dr Francis J Wright, 2005/08/26