From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs lisp syntax rfc: (cond (EXPR => (lambda (X) ...))) Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:41:06 +0100 Message-ID: <877hekbp0d.fsf@ambire.localdomain> References: <877hengesr.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <20110102.235234.923991058990597855.hanche@math.ntnu.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294159592 32556 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2011 16:46:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 16:46:32 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 04 17:46:27 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PaA1i-0007NP-7E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:46:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55349 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PaA1h-0007RY-Ne for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:46:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34912 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PaA1d-0007RO-HG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:46:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PaA1c-00063g-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:46:21 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp209.alice.it ([82.57.200.105]:47582) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PaA1b-00063D-Nd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:46:20 -0500 Original-Received: from ambire.localdomain (95.244.66.212) by smtp209.alice.it (8.5.124.08) id 4C1A27590E52E811 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 4 Jan 2011 17:46:17 +0100 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire.localdomain with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pa9wY-0004yL-4m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:41:06 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20110102.235234.923991058990597855.hanche@math.ntnu.no> (Harald Hanche-Olsen's message of "Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:52:34 +0100 (CET)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:134259 Archived-At: () Harald Hanche-Olsen () Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:52:34 +0100 (CET) If you think you need this, I suspect the need can just as easily be covered using a macro: (defmacro acond (&rest clauses) ...) They can be very handy. True. For my own code, i would not hesitate to use it. However, this macro masks =E2=80=98it=E2=80=99 from an outer scope, so is not a good general (for installation into Emacs) solution.