From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thompson, David" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: negating a number Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:34:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1389810289.3409.158.camel@DebianBox.loc> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389810911 13810 80.91.229.3 (15 Jan 2014 18:35:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:35:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile User To: richard@rshann.plus.com Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 15 19:35:18 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@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 1W3VJ7-0001Sa-GX for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:35:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56673 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3VJ7-0002kC-5U for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:35:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54969) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3VIt-0002cr-Lf for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:35:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3VIn-0003Jw-Hc for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:35:03 -0500 Original-Received: from na3sys009aog123.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.149]:40176) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3VIn-0003Jj-AK for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:34:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]) (using TLSv1) by na3sys009aob123.postini.com ([74.125.148.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKUtbUzm6X5mqEgcihhK3uZx1OZF2y4za2@postini.com; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:34:57 PST Original-Received: by mail-pb0-f46.google.com with SMTP id ma3so1510213pbc.33 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:34:54 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Ztn4Ko5MdkyNrla464Y8ArKF/0PT1pnnrLYfPOu1sLY=; b=jO/tB6N3JiZHFbEvH9b+uGkkKoWDzo0+Z4f1n0LjK6FYPNF7u0axMfJC1lxIbZkHve Ai+nhsDPUgK5+/9ODQud0jD2xPKMLnfgOsL4/AgmRvpyFxgVgknCW7p8ownnA2DlyZ/0 tgXAeEssZW5gmMX1sHVB8EVN8m9Q53DgGzuUbIV8tz0VLEgukw4yyCfPI5sLBRGIHM/D uDKJkBejfsMKqTrjfo4zNzmAFCvd9NmAM6Z4Tg092DP5nuqFRefkU/URDmmxAjmGA544 xQCNYuEVed2keNNNpDRJ4QmS/eAIp4cnYCrFTC7sfTdnrkXJ90rlnNFs9ao2wmfJ4w2T Y/pw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmiJ3ZhjMwT8GMqLcMVYuAGIIFXcxpsPTySxcJ87wvfFVbLC93QwP/j5pYzGH6SQRV3fIKhpCC9z4EVwcd0Tsx0gqy8w6Q/mGqArhJmgMfQmu+5zvgrapifPrgyKRyxLm7vxzaNGxl/c32MaiY/5B7pDJavYw== X-Received: by 10.68.171.193 with SMTP id aw1mr4513317pbc.117.1389810894480; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:34:54 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.68.171.193 with SMTP id aw1mr4513307pbc.117.1389810894340; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:34:54 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.70.130.109 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:34:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1389810289.3409.158.camel@DebianBox.loc> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x X-Received-From: 74.125.149.149 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:11004 Archived-At: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Richard Shann wrote: > Is there something neater than > > (- 0 amount) > > to negate a number? Can't spot anything in the manual ... > > Richard Shann It reads better if you leave out the 0. (- amount) :) - Dave Thompson