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From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cond construct for situation when a variable is t
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:04:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7j2d6yd.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Qr7hyMFdDnjML6CypS2UfLJB-ym4ochp3zRSpNH4NKkWrt931xSXHdAPmCV9AR_C1MnFZD_ul2yV2We0CoxOU7JFuZXoERA6cFVcyv0KE5Q=@protonmail.com

Heime wrote:

> How can I use the 'cond' construct for the case when
> a variable is 't' ?

It could look like this but in practice one would probably put
it in another way, that looks better.

(setq var nil)

(cond
  (var       1)
  ((not var) 0) )

> I can set a variable to boolean true using (setq var t), am
> I right ?

You can, you totally can. Just don't `setq' t to anything ;)

-- 
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https://dataswamp.org/~incal




  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-19 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-18 14:00 cond construct for situation when a variable is t Heime
2023-08-19 22:04 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2023-08-22 12:18   ` Heime
2023-08-22 16:10     ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-08-22 19:31       ` Emanuel Berg
2023-08-23 19:49         ` Drew Adams
2023-08-22 19:29     ` Emanuel Berg
2023-08-22 12:32   ` Heime
2023-08-22 16:17     ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2023-08-22 20:21       ` Heime
2023-08-22 21:07         ` Drew Adams
2023-08-19 22:43 ` Rudolf Adamkovič

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