From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: anaphora in emacs-lisp?
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 23:55:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1XHPfI-0003NN-EL@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iolz5wp3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:09:44 +0200)
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> If we have these, we should also have 'unless-it' and 'case-it'.
unless-it seems fabulously pointless: `it' would always be nil.
We seem to envision two different calling conventions.
I envisioned
(unless-it (+ x y) (> it 5)
...)
but I suppose you envision that 'it' is bound to the object
whose value is tested.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-13 3:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-08 20:29 anaphora in emacs-lisp? Nic Ferrier
2014-08-09 2:57 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-08-09 12:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-09 17:24 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-10 23:18 ` Josh
2014-08-11 1:46 ` Richard Stallman
2014-08-11 7:09 ` David Kastrup
2014-08-13 3:55 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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