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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>,
	Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: master 12f63c18f6 1/2: Add new macro 'while-let'
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:14:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SJ0PR10MB5488B13790E54132CC7A82CEF3299@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735bn9xxy.fsf@melete.silentflame.com>

> Yeah, that's a Lisp convention I learned from Magit's maintainer --
> when/unless for side-effects, and/or for return value.  I appreciate
> having and-let for this reason.

It's a very old convention (and a good one) - even
called out in "Common Lisp The Language" (from the
beginning).

      reply	other threads:[~2022-10-17  0:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <166436449368.11560.17915607619196292155@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <20220928112814.B0924C12D9B@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-09-28 15:25   ` master 12f63c18f6 1/2: Add new macro 'while-let' Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-29 10:29     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-29 11:42       ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-29 11:48         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-15 14:12           ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-16  7:45             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-16  9:26               ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-16 22:59                 ` Sean Whitton
2022-10-17  0:14                   ` Drew Adams [this message]

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