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 13:01:36 +0100 Message-ID: <85lkj66x27.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87ireah6ia.fsf@wigwam.brockman.se> <854ppu8k1l.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87y7n6fdod.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 1171108921 22190 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2007 12:02:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:02:01 +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 13:01:53 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 1HFqvQ-0004cZ-Lv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:01:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFqvQ-0001Oz-Ao for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:01:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFqvG-0001OS-9R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:01:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFqvF-0001O4-Jc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:01:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFqvF-0001O1-GR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:01:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.49]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HFqvE-0004mY-Vd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:01:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-10-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.27]) by mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2617C313; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:01:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.49]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99EF423D2D9; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:01:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-025-243.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.25.243]) by mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DAB63BE22; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:01:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 476221C4CE32; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:01:37 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87y7n6fdod.fsf@wigwam.brockman.se> (Daniel Brockman's message of "Sat\, 10 Feb 2007 12\:35\:30 +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:66210 Archived-At: Daniel Brockman writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> Daniel Brockman writes: >> >>> 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. > > Of course it's an idiom. That doesn't mean it looks good. Lisp is not designed to look good. > I, as a speaker of Emacs Lisp, would prefer not to use this idiom if > `otherwise' became an accepted alternative. It didn't. Try getting it into Common Lisp first. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum