From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: constant `e' Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:59:50 +0100 Message-ID: <854ppu8k1l.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87ireah6ia.fsf@wigwam.brockman.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171098019 28600 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2007 09:00:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:00:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Brockman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 10 10:00:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HFo5c-0004Go-2M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:00:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFo5b-00074V-Mo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 04:00:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFo5L-00074Q-Cp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:59:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFo5J-00074E-GO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:59:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFo5J-00074B-BB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:59:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-10.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.50]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HFo5I-00042b-Uh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:59:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-05-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.17]) by mail-in-10.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 424491F5442; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:59:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.41]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34C072DAA48; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:59:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-025-243.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.25.243]) by mail-in-01.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA3B019B32A; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:59:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 2A65C1C4CE32; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:59:50 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87ireah6ia.fsf@wigwam.brockman.se> (Daniel Brockman's message of "Sat\, 10 Feb 2007 07\:27\:25 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:66201 Archived-At: Daniel Brockman 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