Re: toggle-viper-mode strangeness

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> It's been several days since I updated cvs-emacs here, so forgive me if
> this is fixed already.
> 
> Isn't the following in `toggle-viper-mode' strange?
> 
>         ;;;###autoload
>         (defun toggle-viper-mode ()
>           "Toggle Viper on/off.
>         If Viper is enabled, turn it off.  Otherwise, turn it on."
>           (interactive)
>           (if (eq viper-mode t)
>               (viper-go-away)
> ==>         (setq viper-mode nil)
>             (viper-mode)))
> 
> Looking at the indentation I'd expect the if expression to end where the
> arrow points, but it doesn't.  Or is an implicit (progn ...) added
> automatically by Emacs around the third ... N-th elements of the if
> expression?

Yes:

,----[ C-h f if RET ]
| if is a special form.
| (if COND THEN ELSE...)
|
| If COND yields non-nil, do THEN, else do ELSE...
| Returns the value of THEN or the value of the last of the ELSE's.
| THEN must be one expression, but ELSE... can be zero or more expressions.
| If COND yields nil, and there are no ELSE's, the value is nil.
`----

-- 
Kevin Rodgers