From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: anaphora in emacs-lisp? Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 23:55:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lhqyg1yr.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <87iolz5wp3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1407902168 18026 80.91.229.3 (13 Aug 2014 03:56:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 03:56:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 13 05:56:03 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XHPfN-0001Hw-OU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2014 05:56:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44884 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHPfN-0007W8-9G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 23:56:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57650) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHPfJ-0007Ur-SI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 23:55:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHPfJ-0001zl-42 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 23:55:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57135) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHPfJ-0001zh-0Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 23:55:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XHPfI-0003NN-EL; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 23:55:56 -0400 In-reply-to: <87iolz5wp3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:09:44 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:173609 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.