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Re: humble proposal: New special form progn-1
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Clément Pit--Claudel |
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Re: humble proposal: New special form progn-1 |
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Wed, 27 Jul 2016 15:07:10 -0400 |
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On 2016-07-27 10:38, Tino Calancha wrote:
> You mean that could confuse some people that is like:
> (1- (progn (form)))
> I still like progn-1 more because naturally fit in the sequence:
> prog1, prog2, ..., progn
No, that's not what I meant. I meant that in Lisp when I want to write (n - 1)
I actually write (- n 1); thus, when I see progn-1, I don't read it as "prog (n
minus 1)", but instead as "progn dash 1". Given the convention that foo-1
usually means "internal function used in the implementation of foo", I read it
as "internal function used to implement progn".
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