From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: constant `e'
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:59:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <854ppu8k1l.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ireah6ia.fsf@wigwam.brockman.se> (Daniel Brockman's message of "Sat\, 10 Feb 2007 07\:27\:25 +0100")
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se> writes:
> `natural-logarithm-base'
>
> `circle-circumference-diameter-ratio'
>
> `canonical-true-value'
>
> Seriously, though, I'd really like to see an `otherwise'
> constant (defined to `t', of course). That would make
> catch-all clauses of `cond' look much better.
Disagree, that's an idiom. Anyway, you can do
(cond ((eq x 'yellow) "yellow")
((eq x 'green) "green")
("other"))
and avoid the t altogether. Not that it is prettier to my eyes.
> Please?
There is no point in Elisp diverging from Lisp without more compelling
reasons.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-10 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-09 7:37 constant `e' Drew Adams
2007-02-09 9:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-09 11:24 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-09 15:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-09 15:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-09 15:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-10 17:40 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-09 18:33 ` Jay Belanger
2007-02-09 18:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-09 14:23 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-09 14:32 ` Leo
2007-02-09 23:11 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-10 0:16 ` Drew Adams
2007-02-12 18:11 ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-02-10 17:39 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-09 14:37 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-10 17:39 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-09 15:33 ` Drew Adams
2007-02-09 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-09 16:50 ` Drew Adams
2007-02-10 9:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-09 23:07 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-02-10 17:39 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-10 18:41 ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
2007-02-10 21:12 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-02-10 9:29 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-02-10 19:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-10 19:22 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-10 19:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-10 20:32 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-12 5:04 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-02-12 16:06 ` Drew Adams
2007-02-10 6:27 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-02-10 8:59 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-02-10 11:35 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-02-10 12:01 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-10 12:42 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-02-10 12:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-02-10 14:33 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-02-10 18:05 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-02-10 18:29 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-02-12 19:03 ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-02-12 19:57 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-02-10 17:38 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-10 18:15 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-02-12 18:51 ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-02-10 19:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-10 20:48 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-02-10 21:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-11 9:42 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-11 17:53 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-02-10 21:34 ` Edward O'Connor
2007-02-12 19:17 ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-02-12 20:37 ` Daniel Brockman
2007-02-12 20:40 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-10 17:41 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-10 9:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2007-02-10 9:51 ` Jason Rumney
2007-02-12 18:16 ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-02-10 15:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-10 19:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-11 0:43 ` David Hansen
2007-02-11 1:13 ` Jay Belanger
2007-02-11 1:24 ` Drew Adams
2007-02-10 18:53 ` Chong Yidong
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-13 2:34 djh
2007-02-13 8:23 ` Werner LEMBERG
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