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Re: elisp question
From: |
Maciej Katafiasz |
Subject: |
Re: elisp question |
Date: |
Sat, 12 May 2007 00:36:40 +0000 (UTC) |
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Den Thu, 10 May 2007 08:53:38 -0400 skrev stan:
> Recently I had cause to go digging into ps-print.el (turned out to be
> version problems in cygwin emacs) and I ran accross something I don't
> understand. For the record I'm not by any means an elisp programmer but
> I can usually at least read the code and do some simple things.
>
> The line I don't think I understand is
>
> (and (fboundp 'start-process) 0)
>
> Actually that's a fragment of a larger expression. It looks to me like
> this will always be nil. Is this some idiom I haven't seeen or is this
> just a synonym fo nil?
It's equivalent to saying
(when (fboundp 'start-process) 0)
ie. 0 if start-process is a bound function, nil otherwise.
Cheers,
Maciej