From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org>
Cc: Emilio Lopes <eclig@gmx.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point)
Date: 29 Aug 2005 18:15:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jkll2kl79f.fsf@glug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvek8c31lk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> > OTOH at a first glance *I* don't expect a control structures such as
> > `when' to return any useful value when the conditional clause fails.
> > But maybe I've been doing too much Scheme these days. (no, surely not
>
> You're just suffering from one of the many places where Scheme is
> too imperative. For once, Elisp is more functional in this case.
one-armed `if' when the condition is false has unspecified value.
that's not "too imperative", just "underspecified" (for some tastes).
see info node: "(r5rs) Conditionals".
furthermore, scheme doesn't (usually) have `when', so schemers should
probably take that as a hint to read the elisp docs on `when' and
compare it to their implementation's docs on `when'.
anyway, i suppose it's fair to say schemers suffer for their cause, in
one way or another (but always unportably :-)...
thi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-29 22:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-25 18:48 patch for woman (woman-topic-at-point) Emilio Lopes
2005-08-25 19:51 ` David Kastrup
2005-08-26 12:03 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-26 15:21 ` Emilio Lopes
2005-08-26 18:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-08-27 18:57 ` Emilio Lopes
2005-08-28 19:35 ` David Kastrup
2005-08-29 16:08 ` Drew Adams
2005-08-30 16:13 ` Emilio Lopes
2005-08-29 18:08 ` Emilio Lopes
2005-08-29 20:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-08-29 22:15 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen [this message]
2005-08-31 2:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-08-28 2:45 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-09-02 11:11 ` Dr Francis J Wright
2005-08-26 15:23 ` Emilio Lopes
2005-08-26 16:25 ` Dr Francis J Wright
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