From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [External] : Re: cond* Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 23:22:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16983"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 21 05:22:39 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rGAZz-0004BO-Hb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2023 05:22:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rGAZV-0006d7-H7; Wed, 20 Dec 2023 23:22:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rGAZU-0006cw-4r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Dec 2023 23:22:08 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rGAZT-0005tW-T0; Wed, 20 Dec 2023 23:22:07 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=S7Cng34cAdPul4sxMlYs50sDPNKvhlrT22+utJz5IKc=; b=cs+HOk5IIUIZ 2tloVxSsU3/K5fwbC0FPdxR+8BiYlIBtT57BjxLcZryGAH5iSnCjw3LF7WyTJVxxT2KxbWcqmcfvR 0MzeIvOeLdQVlB+Ep+j3kBxDOL3oDq7chiRi3ia9kWUnZrELgd4MBRjCKZYlplRFcFkwocNTocMXr WH2nIt0WAbo0ltvhtIlfNDB+jUH/OHhDWaMs9vnR2KGnOXMRFVVVwoJY1Vl4wkTOMsUPSEoKdUcK9 wYUlj2DiDXxzuaU0NiEDJ3QrigiBrUuYM0h5BX9TP1K1JpN6VezNZyScTz7GJ38YMn5u1TbSd3Med h7CJHUETjWpXvZmcIcvsMQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rGAZT-0007Pt-HH; Wed, 20 Dec 2023 23:22:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:53:47 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:314030 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] It would be easy to indicate a fall-through clause with nil instead of t. One advantage of nil is that it is never used as the first element of a cond clause. Or a keyword, such as :fall-thru, could do this job. I prefer t or nil to a keyword, because they are more elegant. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)