From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Re: cond* Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:51:39 -0500 Message-ID: References: <25992.56214.508459.273816@orion.rgrjr.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38024"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 29 04:52:44 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rJ3vQ-0009hW-FI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2023 04:52:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rJ3uY-0000Eo-22; Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:51:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rJ3uP-0000B4-2B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:51:41 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rJ3uO-0004fU-ND; Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:51:40 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=Fh+eKvPbX/DmCqOr9q/SkfihdhJME/+ZZU2m6g2vNJk=; b=dOsx73LW6Tfe lMLIXmTwxTjyFbtvph6IB/cPNW3CFaGMhanYAZ+gwJA8+5PZ/5yIBhtefW6wi+H3X0Z6vq8hzyfan I1eIyC3DsrrY9pigTg/RdaG9OD/mNF/ycLy2VWHL5IdSKaWGY6zlxRpY+vcxY39l7YlHpJ8r1MTla NV/bWHHz5ojAPOjTb+LcrjB6scaIupGdX0Tz/LXWciVGuRI7Tyq+Y6oVhwYoksHhAs96XTSM3pxLq DBQC3wsqOZtm42zk8ouuPgXKI+AsJBste60KscKAvSl2SMgGAiza0rjmrQAnUbLqTcD/dI7jSar+c y2tSm2G0hIa3UKiY6dSfmg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rJ3uN-0005LX-SC; Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:51:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Mon, 25 Dec 2023 03:49:30 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:314302 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. ]]] > * A clause that starts with t. > Confusion with `cond's very different t. It's different, but that's the point of the * in cond*. > * A clause that starts with nil. > Confusion with `cond's very different nil. There is no such thibg as "cond's nil". nil is not used to start a cond clause. We know what it would do there, but we never do that, because it is useless. nil as the first element of a cond* clause would act as a waving flag that says, "Remember, this is different from cond." > * A keyword. > Doable, but still not very satisfying, IMO. Those are the four methods I have thought of. Any of them would work, so if people prefer the keyword approach, I'll support that one. If you think of a better way of indicating this feature, please suggest it to me. If it is clearer, I could use it. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)