On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 5:36 AM Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
> It is clearer to write
>
> (setq var value)
> (if var ...)
Sure.
I think I've used (if (setq...) only in cases where it avoided an indentation level(having to add `progn' or somesuch) in code already overstuffed.